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|accepted_name=Chloris gayana
|accepted_authority=Kunth
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|common_names=Rhodesgrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Chloris;Chloris gayana
|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>[[Chloris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chloris gayana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 210
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; usually stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> to 300 cm, erect. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or scabrous, often ciliate apically; ligules ciliate; blades to 30 cm long, 15 mm wide, scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> digitate, with 9-30 evidently distinct branches; branches 8-20 cm, usually somewhat divaricate, spikelet-bearing to the base, averaging 10 spikelets per cm. <b>Spikelets</b> strongly imbricate, tawny, with 1 bisexual and (1)2-4 usually staminate, sometimes sterile florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 1.4-2.8 mm; upper glumes 2.2-3.5 mm; lowest lemmas 2.5-4.2 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, ovate to obovate or elliptic, somewhat gibbous, sides not grooved, pubescence variable, sides usually glabrous, sometimes scabrous or appressed pubescent, margins usually glabrous or appressed pubescent on the lower portions, sometimes throughout their length, sometimes with strongly divergent hairs distally, occasionally with strongly divergent hairs their entire length, divergent hairs, when present, 1+ mm, lemma apices inconspicuously bilobed, awned, awns 1.5-6.5 mm; second florets staminate or sterile, 2.2-3.2 mm long, 0.3-1 mm wide, similar to the first floret but more cylindrical, not widened distally, inflated, if at all, only near the apices, inconspicuously bilobed, awned, awns 0.8-3.2 mm; distal florets progressively smaller, longer than the subtending rachilla segment, awn-tipped or unawned. <b>Caryopses</b> 1-1.5 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide. <b>2n</b> = 20, 30, 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Maine;Va.;Mass.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;N.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ill.;Miss.;Ariz.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Chloris gayana</i> grows in warm-temperate to tropical regions throughout the world, including the southern United States. It is cultivated as a meadow grass in irrigated regions of the southwest.</p>
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name=Chloris gayana
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|authority=Kunth
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Maine;Va.;Mass.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Calif.;N.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ill.;Miss.;Ariz.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Chloris
|species=Chloris gayana
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