View source for Milium ← Milium You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Milium |accepted_authority=L. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Milium |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Milium]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 24 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 778 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; cespitose, sometimes rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 10-180 cm, glabrous or hispidulous; nodes 2-5, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> open, smooth or scabrous; auricles absent; ligules hyaline, glabrous, obtuse to acute; blades flat, smooth or scabrous over the veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> open panicles; branches drooping to ascending, smooth or scabrous, some branches longer than 1 cm. <b>Spikelets</b> pedicellate, dorsally compressed, with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the floret; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the floret. <b>Glumes</b> equal, equaling or exceeding the lemmas, membranous, smooth or scabrous, unawned; calluses blunt, glabrous; lemmas dark, coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous, obscurely 5-veined, margins involute, apices unawned; paleas similar to the lemmas and partly enfolded by them; lodicules 2, free, glabrous, toothed or not; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> shorter than the lemmas, concealed at maturity, glabrous; hila 1/5 to nearly 1/2 the length of the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 4, 5,7,9.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Wis.;W.Va.;N.H.;N.J.;N.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Conn.;Iowa;Ill.;Ind.;Mass.;Md.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Ohio;S.Dak.;Vt.;Idaho;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. And Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask. |discussion=<p><i>Milium</i> is a circumtemperate genus of four species. All the species grow in mesic to dry mixed woods and dry open habitats. <i>Milium effusum</i> is native to the Flora region; <i>M. vernale</i> has become established.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=callihan1988a |text=Callihan, R.H. and D.S. Pavek. 1988. Milium vernale survey in Idaho County, Idaho. Idaho Weed Control Rep. 1988:153 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=femald1950a |text=Femald, M.I. 1950. The North American variety of Milium effusum. Rhodora 52:218-222. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Plants perennial; blades 8-17 mm wide; panicles 10-27 cm long; lemmas 2.3-3 mm long |[[Milium effusum|Milium effusum]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Plants annual; blades 1.9-5 mm wide; panicles 4-11.5 cm long; lemmas 2-2.3 mm long |[[Milium vernale|Milium vernale]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Milium |author=William J. Crins; |authority=L. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Wis.;W.Va.;N.H.;N.J.;N.C.;Tenn.;N.Y.;Pa.;Va.;Conn.;Iowa;Ill.;Ind.;Mass.;Md.;Maine;Mich.;Minn.;Ohio;S.Dak.;Vt.;Idaho;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. And Labr.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Sask. |reference=callihan1988a;femald1950a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_1107.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae |genus=Milium }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Poeae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Milium.