Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennials.

Stems: Culms tufted, firm, slender, erect or somewhat decumbent at base, 4-10 dm tall, glabrous.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades 10-30 cm long, 1-3(-4) mm wide, flat or involute. Veins parallel. Sheaths glabrous, pilose at throat and on collar; ligule ciliate, ca.0.2 mm long. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Inflorescences paniculate, open, oblong, erect, 24-40 cm long, 6-15 cm wide, branches widely spaced, fasciculate, becoming spreading or deflexed, the lowest primary branches 5-9 cm long, scabrous, lower axils densely pilose; spikelets 4-7-flowered, 5-8 mm long, pedicels somewhat flexuous, the lateral ones 2-4 mm long, somewhat compressed, rachilla flexuous, glabrous; glumes subequal, 2.5-3 mm long, keel scaberulous, apex acuminate, the apex of first glume usually slightly longer than first lemma and narrower than second glume. Lemmas loosely imbricate, rachilla exposed, rather turgid, ca.2.5 mm long, ca. 0.7 mm wide, Iateral nerves faint, finely scaberulous on upper part of keel and on sides near apex, the apex acute; palea nearly as long as lemma, keels finely scaberulous.

Fruit: Caryopsis dark reddish brown; oblong; laterally compressed; 0.9-1.1 mm long.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Probably from mesic or dry forest.

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