Eragrostis bahiensis

(Schrad.) Schult.
Common names: Bahia lovegrass
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 101.

Plants perennial; cespitose, with innovations, without rhizomes, not glandular. Culms 25-95 (110) cm, erect, glabrous. Sheaths glabrous, summits hairy, hairs 1-3 mm; ligules 0.2-0.4 mm; blades (8) 12-40 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous and glabrous or long ciliate basally. Panicles terminal, 15-30 (45) cm long, (4) 8-17 cm wide, narrowly ovate, open to contracted; primary branches 5-15 cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, often capillary, usually naked basally; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 0.3-6 mm, mostly appressed, scabridulous, always shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets 6-15 (18) mm long, 1.3-2 (2.2) mm wide, narrowly lanceolate, plumbeous, occasionally with a reddish-purple tinge, with 8-30 (40) florets; disarticulation usually in the rachilla below the florets, occasionally the lemmas falling separately, leaving the paleas on the rachilla. Glumes lanceolate to ovate, membranous to subhyaline, keeled; lower glumes 1-1.4 mm; upper glumes 1.4-1.7 mm; lemmas 1.5-2.2 mm, broadly ovate, leathery, scabridulous, lateral-veins evident, apices acute; paleas 1.4-2.1 mm, hyaline, bases not projecting beyond the lemmas, keels scabridulous, apices acute to obtuse; anthers 2, 0.4-0.6 mm, reddish-purple. Caryopses 0.6-0.8 mm, obovoid to ellipsoid, terete, somewhat striate, reddish-brown. 2n = unknown.

Distribution

N.J., La., Ala., Ga., S.C., Fla.

Discussion

Eragrostis bahiensis grows in sandy soils near river banks, lake shores, and roadsides, at 0-200 m. Its range extends south from the Gulf Coast of the United States through Mexico to Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Eragrostis bahiensis"
ciliate +, long +  and glabrous +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br />) +
acute +  and obtuse +
Paul M. Peterson +
(Schrad.) Schult. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
not +  and glabrous +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
not projecting +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
flat +  and involute +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
not disarticulating +
not spikelike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
reddish-brown +
terete +, obovoid +  and ellipsoid +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
Bahia lovegrass +
branched +, simple +  and rooting +
geniculate +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (95 cm950 mm <br />0.95 m <br />) +
not woody +
N.J. +, La. +, Ala. +, Ga. +, S.C. +  and Fla. +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
8 +  and 30 +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
persistent +  and deciduous +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
keeled +, lanceolate +  and ovate +
membranous +
uncinate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
scabridulous +
not absent +
(1)3(5)-veined +
scabridulous +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br />) +
sometimes longer +
ciliate +  and ciliolate +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br />) +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
persistent +
2-keeled +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br />) +
15cm +  and 30cm +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (17 cm170 mm <br />0.17 m <br />) +
scabridulous +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
spikelike +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
1 +  and 60 +
lanceolate +
1.3mm +  and 2mm +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Eragrostis bahiensis +
Eragrostis +
species +
membranous +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +  and synoecious +