Saccharum bengalense

Retz.
Common names: Tall cane
Introduced
Synonyms: Saccharum ciliare
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 616.

Plants cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms to 5 m, glabrous. Blades to 2 m long, 3-25 mm wide, flat or channeled, glaucous and scabrous. Panicles 20-90 cm, compact; primary branches 2-5 cm, considerably shorter than the supporting branches; rame internodes hirsute, hairs to 7 mm. Sessile spikelets 4-6 mm long, somewhat heteromorphic. Sessile spikelets: callus hairs to 2.5 mm, white to gray; glumes equal; lower glumes membranous, pubescent; upper glumes glabrous; lower lemmas oblongelliptic, pubescent; upper lemmas oblongelliptic, ciliate on the margins, acute to shortly awned; awns about 1.3 mm, not visible beyond the glumes; anthers 3. Pedicels shorter than the sessile spikelet. Pedicellate spikelets pilose on the glumes, hairs 4-9 mm. 2n = 20, 22, 40, 60.

Discussion

Saccharum bengalense is native from Iran to northern India. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in the Flora region.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Saccharum bengalense"
60 +, 40 +, 22 +  and 20 +
anatomy +  and kranz +
Robert D. Webster +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
not visible +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (?) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
divergent +  and parallel +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
pseudopetiolate +
well-developed +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (200 cm2,000 mm <br />2 m <br />) +
channeled +  and flat +
reduced +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
spikelike +
white +  and gray +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Tall cane +
purple +  and reddish +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (500 cm5,000 mm <br />5 m <br />) +
not woody +
Puerto Rico +
capillary +
sometimes longer +
concealing +
compressed +  and terete +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
villous +  and glabrous +
2-keeled +
subequal +
chartaceous +  and coriaceous +
uncinate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
bracteate +  and ebracteate +
pedunculate +  and multiple-stalked +
ascending +  and appressed +
axillary +  and subtending +
solid +  and hollow +
photosynthetic +
not aromatic +
coriaceous +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
oblongelliptic +
complex +  and simple +
concealed +  and prominent +
pedicellate +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
elongate +
stoloniferous +
Introduced +
pedicellate +, sessile +  and heteromorphic +
in triplets +  and paired +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
2 +, 1 +  and numerous +
compressed +
usually smaller +  and reduced +
1 +  and 3 +
fused +  and free +
2 +  and 3 +
dome--shaped +  and triangular +
Saccharum ciliare +
Saccharum bengalense +
Saccharum +
species +
membranous +
sessile-pedicellate +
acute +  and shortly awned +
not raised +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +