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Eragrostis

Wolf (1776)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Monocots Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Genus: Eragrostis

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annuals or perennials.

Stems:

Roots: Roots fibrous.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades linear to linear-lanceolate, flat or convolute, glabrous or very sparsely pilose. Veins parallel. Sheaths glabrous, often glandular, rarely pilose; Iigule up to 1.5 mm long, usually reduced to a ciliate rim, rarely membranous. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Inflorescences open or contracted spike-like panicles, the branches sometimes racemose, but at least the longer ones with short side branches, rarely ending in a slender bristle; spikelets laterally compressed, variously disarticulating, awnless; glumes usually subequal, shorter than first lemma, 1-nerved. Lemmas 3-nerved, usually glabrous, apex acuminate to emarginate, rarely mucronulate; palea slightly shorter than lemmas, deciduous or persistent, keels sometimes long-ciliate, rarely winged. Stamens 2-3.

Fruit: Caryopsis usually globose to ellipsoid; smooth; finely striate; or finely reticulate; pericarp adherent or sometimes slightly loose.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

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Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


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Bibliography

Name Published In: Gen. Pl.: 23 (1776)

Occurrences

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