familyPoaceae
subfamilyPoaceae subfam. Panicoideae
genusPanicum
subgenusPanicum subg. Phanopyrum
sectionPanicum sect. Verrucosa
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Panicum sect. Verrucosa
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 487.
Plants annual. Culms weak, sprawling. Ligules membranous, ciliate, very short. Panicles open, diffuse, lax, with a few spikelets. Spikelets warty-tuberculate or verrucose, faintly veined. Lower glumes less than 1/5 as long as the spikelets, without veins; upper glumes and lower lemmas subequal, 5-veined; lower florets sterile; lower paleas absent; upper florets finely longitudinally rugose, papillose and with bicellular microhairs, often with a minute protuberance at the base of the paleas. x = 9.
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Lower Taxa
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absent +
common +
absent +
bulliform +
absent +
membranous +
gaping +
apiculate +
puberulent +
absent +
absent +
arising +
single +
sulcate +
cormlike +
membranous +
thick +
adaxial +
secund +
absent +
sterile +
spikelike +
absent +
sterile +
not developed +
absent +
sometimes longer +
small green +
annual +
weak +
climbing +
floating +
sprawling +
herbaceous +
succulent +
narrow +
Conn. +, N.H. +, R.I. +, N.C. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Wash. +, Ala. +, Fla. +, W.Va. +, Mich. +, Del. +, D.C +, Wis. +, Iowa +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Colo. +, Ill. +, Maine +, Oreg. +, Utah +, Mass. +, Vt. +, Wyo. +, Puerto Rico +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, La. +, Ind. +, Md. +, Miss. +, Pa. +, Va. +, Ark. +, Kans. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Ky. +, Ariz. +, Idaho +, Tenn. +, S.C. +, Calif. +, Nev. +, Mo. +, Ga. +, Minn. +, Mont. +, Ohio +, Virgin Islands +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.) +, N.S. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. + and Sask. +
1/2 +
waisted +
large +
hard +
capillary +
germination +
adjacent +
sometimes longer +
well-developed +
absent +
reduced +
bisexual +
plump +
absent +
paired +
herbaceous +
shorter +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
tuberculate +
unequal +
membranous +
equal +
various +
lacking +
uncinate +
punctate +
axillary +
elongated +
spongy +
absent +
distichous +
cauline +
hyaline +
coriaceous +
absent +
membranous +
free +
absent +
inconspicuous +
glabrous +
cuneate +
fleshy +
staminate +
sterile +
reduced +
3-veined +
minute +
hyaline +
absent +
separated +
hyaline +
involute +
absent +
parenchymatous +
absent +
unspecialized +
absent +
glabrous +
clasping +
keeled +
diffuse +
subterranean +
absent +
separating +
thin +
minute +
evident +
winter +
lunate +
higher +
thick-walled +
anatomy +
closed +
complex +
bisexual +
unisexual +
veined +
length +
attached +
absent +
equaling +
Panicum sect. Verrucosa +
Panicum subg. Phanopyrum +
section +
hyaline +
membranous +
stipitate +
pubescent +
bisexual +
5-veined +
much longer +
absent +
subequal +
shorter to much +
shiny +
5-veined +
subequal +
rugose +
absent +
annual +
herbaceous +
variable +