Eragrostis cylindriflora

Hochst.
Synonyms: Eragrostis horizontalis
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 74.

Plants annual; cespitose, without innovations. Culms 20-70 cm, erect or decumbent, with a ring of glands below the nodes, glabrous. Sheaths often with oblong glands below the collar, usually glabrous, rarely pilose, hairs to 1.5 mm, papillose-based, sometimes both glandular and with papillose-based hairs; ligules 0.4-0.6 mm; blades 3-15 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous or hairy, hairs to 3 mm, papillose-based. Panicles 5-22 cm long, 2.6-10 cm wide, open, oblong, usually diffuse; primary branches 2-9 cm, appressed or diverging to 80° from the rachises, lowest branches whorled, naked below; pulvini glabrous or scattered pilose; pedicels 0.8-7 mm, divergent. Spikelets 2-7 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, oblong, plumbeous to greenish-gray, with 3-14 florets; disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent. Glumes subequal, 1.4-2 mm, narrowly ovate, hyaline; lemmas 1.4-1.7 mm, ovate, membranous, lateral-veins inconspicuous, apices obtuse to acute; paleas 1.2-1.6 mm, hyaline, keels scabridulous, apices obtuse; anthers 3, 0.7-1 mm, yellowish. Caryopses 0.5-1.1 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid, dorsally compressed, with a shallow, broad adaxial groove, smooth, mostly translucent, mostly light-brown, bases greenish. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Eragrostis cylindriflora is native to Africa. It is not established in the Flora region, but has been collected from a disturbed site in Canton, Maryland.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Eragrostis cylindriflora"
hairy +  and glabrous +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
obtuse +  and acute +
Paul M. Peterson +
Hochst. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
not +  and glabrous +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
flat +  and involute +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
not disarticulating +
not spikelike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
compressed +, ellipsoid +  and obovoid +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
branched +, simple +  and rooting +
decumbent +  and erect +
geniculate +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
not woody +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
3 +  and 14 +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
persistent +  and deciduous +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
subequal +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
papillose-based +
uncinate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
scabridulous +
not absent +
(1)3(5)-veined +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
membranous +
sometimes longer +
ciliate +  and ciliolate +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
persistent +
2-keeled +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
5cm +  and 22cm +
2.6 cm26 mm <br />0.026 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
diverging;appressed +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
pilose +, scattered +  and glabrous +
spikelike +
pilose +  and glabrous +
plumbeous +  and greenish-gray +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
1 +  and 60 +
1mm +  and 1.5mm +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Eragrostis horizontalis +
Eragrostis cylindriflora +
Eragrostis +
species +
membranous +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +  and synoecious +