Dichanthelium sect. Pedicellata

(Hitchc. & Chase) Freckmann & Lelong
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 410.

Plants usually cespitose, sometimes with knotty rhizomes; basal rosettes absent. Culms initially erect, ultimately decumbent, often with hard, cormlike bases; fall phase freely divaricate-branching before the primary panicles mature. Cauline leaves 4-14; sheaths glabrous or pubescent, not viscid; ligules membranous and ciliate or of hairs; blades with papillose-based marginal cilia. Primary panicles exserted. Spikelets obovoid to obpyriform, with papillose-based hairs, attenuate basally. Upper florets with pointed to attenuate, puberulent apices.

Selected References

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