View source for Apluda ← Apluda You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Apluda |accepted_authority=L. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Apluda |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Apluda]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 25 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 649 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism growth form">often scrambling.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="culm some measurement;culm growth form or orientation"><b>Culms </b>to 3 m, decumbent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf odor"><b>Leaves </b>not aromatic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="sheath architecture">sheaths open;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="ligule texture">ligules membranous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="blade arrangement or course or shape;blade architecture">blades linear, often pseudopetiolate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="rame architecture or arrangement or growth form"><b>Inflorescences </b>false panicles, individual inflorescence units with solitary rames;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="spikelet quantity;spikelet architecture;spikelet quantity;spikelet architecture">rames to 1 cm, often enclosed by the subtending leaf-sheath, with 1 sessile and 2 unequally pedicellate spikelets;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="spikelet architecture;spikelet architecture">disarticulation at the base of the sessile spikelets, sometimes also at the base of the pedicellate spikelets.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="spikelet architecture;spikelet shape;callus size;callus architecture"><b>Sessile </b>spikelets laterally compressed, with a large, bulbous callus;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="lower glume texture;lower glume architecture or pubescence or relief;lower glume shape">lower glumes coriaceous, without keels or wings, smooth, bidentate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="">upper glumes unawned;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="upper lemma architecture or shape;upper lemma architecture or shape">upper lemmas awned or unawned.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="pedicel prominence or shape;pedicel width;pedicel arrangement;pedicel fixation or orientation;pedicel fusion"><b>Pedicels </b>flat, wide, adjacent to each other, appressed but not fused to the rame axes.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="spikelet architecture;spikelet size;spikelet quantity;spikelet architecture;spikelet reproduction;spikelet reproduction;spikelet size;spikelet architecture;x chromosome quantity"><b>Pedicellate </b>spikelets usually unequal, unawned, 1 staminate or bisexual and as large as the sessile spikelet, the other sterile and usually smaller, x = 10.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Md. |discussion=<p>Apluda is treated here as consisting of a single weedy species that is native to tropical Asia and Australia, where it grows primarily in thickets and forest margins. It is not known to be established in the Flora region.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=clayton1994b |text=Clayton, W.D. 1994. Apluda. Pp. 35-37 in W.D. Clayton, G. Davidse, F. Gould, M. Lazarides, and T.R. Soderstrom. A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon, vol. 8 (ed. M.D. Dassanayake). Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi, India. 458 pp. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=reed1964a |text=Reed, C.F. 1964. A flora of the chrome and manganese ore piles at Canton, in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland and at Newport News, Virginia, with descriptions of genera and species new to the flora of the eastern United States. Phytologia 10:321-405. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Apluda |author=Mary E. Barkworth; |authority=L. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Md. |reference=clayton1994b;reed1964a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V25/V25_1569.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae |genus=Apluda |blade architecture=pseudopetiolate |blade arrangement or course or shape=linear |callus architecture=bulbous |callus size=large |culm growth form or orientation=decumbent |culm some measurement=0m;3m |leaf odor=not aromatic |ligule texture=membranous |lower glume architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth |lower glume shape=bidentate |lower glume texture=coriaceous |pedicel arrangement=adjacent |pedicel fixation or orientation=appressed |pedicel fusion=not fused |pedicel prominence or shape=flat |pedicel width=wide |rame architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary |sheath architecture=open |spikelet architecture=sessile;staminate;pedicellate;sessile;pedicellate;sessile;pedicellate;sessile |spikelet quantity=1;2;1 |spikelet reproduction=sterile;bisexual |spikelet shape=compressed |spikelet size=smaller;unequal |upper lemma architecture or shape=unawned;awned |whole_organism duration=perennial |whole_organism growth form=plant;scrambling |x chromosome quantity=10 }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Apluda.