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|accepted_name=Chloris submutica
|accepted_authority=Kunth
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|common_names=Mexican windmill-grass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Chloris;Chloris submutica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chloris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chloris submutica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 216
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--><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 architecture;whole_organism growth form">usually cespitose, occasionally shortly stoloniferous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="culm some measurement;culm orientation"><b>Culms </b>30-75 cm, erect.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="sheath pubescence"><b>Sheaths </b>glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="ligule some measurement;ligule architecture or pubescence or shape">ligules about 0.5 mm, shortly ciliate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade length;blade width;blade pubescence or relief;basal hair length or size">blades to 20 cm long, to 5 mm wide, sometimes with long basal hairs, otherwise scabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="branch quantity;branch fusion;whorl quantity;whorl arrangement"><b>Panicles </b>with 5-17, evidently distinct branches in 1-3 closely-spaced whorls;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="branch some measurement;branch orientation;branch orientation;spikelet quantity">branches to 7 cm, usually erect when young, spreading to reflexed at maturity, averaging 12 spikelets per cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="floret quantity;floret reproduction;floret quantity;floret architecture"><b>Spikelets </b>with 1 bisexual and 1 staminate floret.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="lower glume some measurement"><b>Lower </b>glumes 1.5-3.2 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="upper glume some measurement">upper glumes 2.5-3.4 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="lowest lemma length;lowest lemma width;lowest lemma arrangement;lowest lemma pubescence;margin pubescence">lowest lemmas 2.8-3.7 mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm wide, broadly linear to elliptic, mostly glabrous but the margins appressed-pubescent, apices obtuse, not conspicuously bilobed, sometimes shortly mucronate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="apex shape;apex architecture or shape;apex shape;floret length;floret width;floret l w ratio;floret shape;floret shape">second florets 1.4-2.2 mm long, 0.3-0.9 mm wide, usually at least twice as long as wide, not lobed, unawned, occasionally mucronate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties=""><b>Caryopses </b>1.7-2.3 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, ellipsoid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="caryopsis length;caryopsis width;caryopsis shape;2n chromosome quantity;2n chromosome quantity">2n = ca. 65, 80.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.
|discussion=<p>Chloris submutica grows from the southwestern United States through Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia to Venezuela. In Mexico, it is generally found between 1000-2100 m.</p>
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name=Chloris submutica
|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Annaliese Miller
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=N.Mex.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
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|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V25/V25_810.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Chloris
|species=Chloris submutica
|2n chromosome quantity=80;65
|apex architecture or shape=bilobed
|apex shape=mucronate;obtuse
|basal hair length or size=long
|blade length=0cm;20cm
|blade pubescence or relief=scabrous
|blade width=0mm;5mm
|branch fusion=distinct
|branch orientation=spreading;reflexed
|branch quantity=5;17
|branch some measurement=0cm;7cm
|caryopsis length=1.7mm;2.3mm
|caryopsis shape=ellipsoid
|caryopsis width=0.5mm;0.6mm
|culm orientation=erect
|culm some measurement=30cm;75cm
|floret architecture=staminate
|floret l w ratio=2
|floret length=1.4mm;2.2mm
|floret quantity=1;1
|floret reproduction=bisexual
|floret shape=mucronate;not lobed
|floret width=0.3mm;0.9mm
|ligule architecture or pubescence or shape=ciliate
|ligule some measurement=0.5
|lower glume some measurement=1.5mm;3.2mm
|lowest lemma arrangement=broadly linear;elliptic
|lowest lemma length=2.8mm;3.7mm
|lowest lemma pubescence=glabrous
|lowest lemma width=0.6mm;1.1mm
|margin pubescence=appressed-pubescent
|sheath pubescence=glabrous
|spikelet quantity=12
|upper glume some measurement=2.5mm;3.4mm
|whole_organism architecture=stoloniferous
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=plant;cespitose
|whorl arrangement=closely-spaced
|whorl quantity=1;3
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