Blepharoneuron

Nash
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 47.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA25 P16A Blepharoneuron pg 50.jpegBlepharoneuron tricholepisKaren Klitz
Linda A. Vorobik

Plants annual or perennial. Culms 10-70 cm. Sheaths open, glabrous, usually longer than the internodes; ligules membranous or hyaline, truncate to obtuse, often decurrent; blades flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, sometimes scabrous, adaxial surfaces shortly pubescent. Inflorescences terminal, panicles, exceeding the leaves; branches spreading to ascending; pedicels capillary, lax, minutely glandular just below the spikelets. Spikelets with 1 floret, slightly laterally compressed, grayish-green; disarticulation above the glumes. Glumes subequal, ovate to obtuse, faintly 1-veined, glabrous; lemmas slightly longer and firmer than the glumes, 3-veined, veins and margins densely sericeous, hairs 0.1-0.7 (1) mm, apices acute to obtuse, occasionally mucronate; paleas 2-veined, densely villous between the veins; anthers 3, purplish, x = 8.

Distribution

Utah, Ariz., Colo., N.Mex., Tex.

Discussion

Blepharoneuron is a genus of two species: a slender annual, B. shepherdii (Vasey) P.M. Peterson & Annable, which is known only from northern Mexico, and B. tricholepis, which is native to the Flora region.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Blepharoneuron"
mucronate +, acute +  and obtuse +
Paul M. Peterson +  and Carol R. Annable +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
flat +  and involute +
spreading;ascending +
spikelike +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
ascending +  and erect +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
not woody +
Utah +, Ariz. +, Colo. +, N.Mex. +  and Tex. +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
bisexual +  and fertile +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
ovate +  and obtuse +
subequal +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
uncinate +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
not absent +
5-veined +, 7-13-veined +  and 1-3-veined +
slightly longer and firmer +
sometimes longer +
decurrent +, truncate +  and obtuse +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
capillary +
dry +  and fleshy +
spikelike +
peterson1990a +
usually longer +
grayish-green +
1 +  and 60 +
compressed +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Blepharoneuron +
Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae +
membranous +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
perennial +  and annual +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +