Vaseyochloa multinervosa

(Vasey) Hitchc.
Common names: Texasgrass
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 108.

Culms 60-110 cm. Ligules 1-3 mm; blades 16-35 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, glabrous, lower blades usually folded, upper blades flat. Panicles 10-30 cm long, 1-3 cm wide; branches 4-13 cm, ascending or the lower branches occasionally spreading, each axil with a tuft of hairs. Spikelets 10-16 mm long, 2.5-5 mm wide. Lower glumes 2.5-4 mm, 1-7-veined; upper glumes 4-5.5 mm, 5-9-veined; lemmas 5-7 mm; anthers 3, 0.5-2 mm. 2n = 56, 60, 68.

Discussion

Vaseyochloa multinervosa grows in islands of live oaks within rolling sand dunes on the Texas mainland, North Padre Island, and on naturally occurring islands in the Laguna Madre of Texas.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Vaseyochloa multinervosa"
68 +, 60 +  and 56 +
1 +  and 3 +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
retuse +, truncate +  and rounded or obtuse +
Robert I. Lonard +
(Vasey) Hitchc. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
16 cm160 mm <br />0.16 m <br /> (35 cm350 mm <br />0.35 m <br />) +
usually linear +  and lanceolate occasionally ovate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
spikelike +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (13 cm130 mm <br />0.13 m <br />) +
concave +  and suborbicular +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
subequal;or longer +
membranous +
Texasgrass +
60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (110 cm1,100 mm <br />1.1 m <br />) +
not woody +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
5 +  and 10 +
bisexual +  and fertile +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
lanceolate +
uncinate +
paniculate +  and racemose +
lanceovate +  and lanceolate +
hollow +  and solid +
not absent +
9-veined +, 7-veined +  and 5-veined +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
lanceolate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
sometimes longer +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
10cm +  and 30cm +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
spikelike +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br />) +
1 +  and 60 +
lanceolate +
2.5mm +  and 5mm +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
Gramineae +
Vaseyochloa multinervosa +
Vaseyochloa +
species +
membranous +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +
12 +, 10 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +