View source for Tridens flavus

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|accepted_name=Tridens flavus
|accepted_authority=(L.) Hitchc.
|publications=
|common_names=Purpletop tridens
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Triodia sesleroidies
|authority=unknown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Triodia flava
|authority=unknown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cupreus
|authority=unknown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Poa flava
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Tridens;Tridens flavus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tridens]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tridens flavus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 39
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>with firm, knotty, shortly rhizomatous bases. <b>Culms</b> 60-180 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> keeled, mostly glabrous, collars pubescent; ligules to 0.5 mm, membranous, ciliate; blades 3-10 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely hispid, apices attenuate and involute. <b>Panicles</b> 15-40 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, erect or nodding; branches 10-15(25) cm, strongly divergent to drooping, stiff or lax, lower branches naked for 1/3 – 1/2 of their length; pedicels 3-8 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 5-10 mm long, with 4-8 florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 2.5-3 mm, often mucronate; upper glumes 3.5-4 mm; lemmas 3-5 mm, lateral veins puberulent or ciliate to well above midlength, midveins and lateral veins usually excurrent, midveins extending to 0.5 mm, lateral vein extensions shorter; paleas as long as the lemmas, widened below; anthers 1-1.5 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.8-2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;D.C;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Ohio;Okla.;Wis.;W.Va.;Ont.;Fla.;N.H.;Tenn.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Md.;Mass.;R.I.;Vt.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Iowa;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Panicles nodding; pulvini inconspicuously or conspicuously hairy, the hairs confined to the adaxial side of the branches
|[[Tridens flavus var. flavus|Tridens flavus var. flavus]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Panicles erect throughout; pulvini always conspicuously hairy, the hairs extending around the base of the branches
|[[Tridens flavus var. chapmanii|Tridens flavus var. chapmanii]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tridens flavus
|author=
|authority=(L.) Hitchc.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Triodia sesleroidies;Triodia flava;Cupreus;Poa flava
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;D.C;Del.;Ill.;Ind.;Kans.;Mich.;Minn.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;Ohio;Okla.;Wis.;W.Va.;Ont.;Fla.;N.H.;Tenn.;Tex.;La.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Md.;Mass.;R.I.;Vt.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Iowa;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_59.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Tridens
|species=Tridens flavus
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