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|accepted_name=Schedonnardus
|accepted_authority=Steud.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Schedonnardus
|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>[[Schedonnardus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 228
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 8-55 cm, sometimes geniculate and branched basally, usually curving distally; internodes minutely retrorsely pubescent, mostly solid. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; sheaths compressed-keeled, closed, glabrous, margins scarious; ligules 1-3.5 mm, membranous, lanceolate; blades 1-12 cm long, 0.7-2 mm wide, stiff, usually folded, often spirally twisted, midrib well-developed, margins thick and whitish. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, panicles of widely spaced, racemosely arranged, spikelike branches, exceeding the upper leaves; branches strongly divergent, with distant to slightly imbricate, closely appressed spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> 3-5.5 mm, mostly sessile, compressed laterally, with 1 floret; florets bisexual; disarticulation at the base of the panicle and above the glumes. <b>Glumes</b> lanceolate, unequal, 1-veined; lemmas usually exceeding the glumes, 3-veined, unawned or shortly awned; paleas subequal to the lemmas; anthers 3; styles 2. <b>Caryopses</b> fusiform, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Alta.;Man.;Sask.;Wyo.;Nev.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Utah;Calif.;Minn.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Mont.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ill.;Miss.;Iowa;Ariz.;Mo.;Ark.;Wis.
|discussion=<p><i>Schedonnardus</i> is a monotypic North American genus that grows in the prairies and central plains of Canada, the United States, and northwestern Mexico. It has also been found, as a recent introduction, in California and Argentina. It is not known if it is established in California.</p>
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name=Schedonnardus
|author=Neil Snow;
|authority=Steud.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Alta.;Man.;Sask.;Wyo.;Nev.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Utah;Calif.;Minn.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Mont.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ill.;Miss.;Iowa;Ariz.;Mo.;Ark.;Wis.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Schedonnardus
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