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Agrostis

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

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

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Low to moderately tall annuals or perennials, rhizomatous or stoloniferous.

Stems: Culms (stems) slender, hollow.

Roots: Fibrous root system.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, distichous. Blades ± linear, flat, folded, or involute, nonauriculate. Margins entire. Sheaths open; ligule membranous, puberulent. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in inflorescence an open or contracted and spikelike panicle. Spikelets 1–flowered, small, slightly laterally compressed, rachilla usually not pubescent, disarticulating above glumes, but sometimes prolonged behind the palea as a slender pubescent bristle; glumes thin, lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sometimes the first glume aristate or short-awned, subequal or equal, both usually 1–nerved, the nerves usually scabrous, usually exceeding the lemma in length; lemma thin, (3–)5–nerved, lateral nerves usually prolonged as minute teeth beyond the obtuse or truncate apex, ± dorsally awned, the awn usually geniculate when long, callus glabrous or minutely bearded; palea absent or vestigial to nearly as long as the lemma, nerveless or 2–nerved. Stamens 3. Ovary superior.

Fruit: Caryopsis narrowly oblong; loosely enclosed by the lemma; glabrous.

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Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

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Natural History

Island Status

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 61 (1753)

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