Elionurus tripsacoides

Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Common names: Pan-american balsamscale
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 685.

Plants cespitose; with short, knotty, rhizomatous bases. Culms 60-120 cm, glabrous throughout. Sheaths glabrous or pilose on the margins; ligules 0.5-1 mm, membranous, shortly ciliate; blades 16-30 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, adaxial surfaces with hairs to 5 mm basally, glabrous distally, margins ciliate near the bases. Rames 6-15 cm; internodes pilose. Sessile spikelets 6-8 mm; calluses about 1 mm, antrorsely hirsute; lower glumes usually mostly glabrous, rarely sparsely pilose dorsally, keels ciliate distally, apices acuminate, bidentate, teeth about 0.5 mm; pedicels hispid on the margins, usually glabrous elsewhere. Pedicellate spikelets similar to the sessile spikelets. 2n = 20.

Distribution

Miss., Fla., Ala., Ga., Tex.

Discussion

Elionurus tripsacoides grows in moist pine woods and low prairies around southern Texas and the Gulf coast to Georgia, and south through Mexico and Central America to Argentina.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Elionurus tripsacoides"
entire +, cuspidate +  and bilobed +
not rimmed +
bidentate +  and acuminate +
anatomy +  and kranz +
Mary E. Barkworth +
Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
keeled +  and rounded +
rhizomatous +
divergent +  and parallel +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
pseudopetiolate +
non-radiate +  and radiate +
well-developed +
16 cm160 mm <br />0.16 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
folded +, flat +  and involute +
reduced +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
spikelike +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Pan-american balsamscale +
purple +  and reddish +
60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
not woody +
Miss. +, Fla. +, Ala. +, Ga. +  and Tex. +
capillary +
sometimes longer +
concealing +
compressed +  and terete +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
compressed +  and rounded +
unequal +
uncinate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
bracteate +  and ebracteate +
pedunculate +  and multiple-stalked +
solid +  and hollow +
columnar +  and clavate +
photosynthetic +
aromatic +
coriaceous +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
pilose +  and glabrous +
subcoriaceous +
complex +  and simple +
concealed +  and prominent +
sessile-pedicellate +
not fused +
glabrous +  and hispid +
dry +  and fleshy +
elongate +
flexuous +
pilose +  and glabrous +
pedicellate +  and sessile +
in triplets +  and paired +
sterile +  and bisexual +
muticous +  and compressed +
usually smaller +  and reduced +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
fused +  and free +
2 +  and 3 +
dome--shaped +  and triangular +
Elyonurus +
Elionurus tripsacoides +
Elionurus +
species +
membranous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +
sessile-pedicellate +
annual +  and perennial +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +