View source for Aristida ramosissima

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|accepted_name=Aristida ramosissima
|accepted_authority=Engelm. ex A. Gray
|publications=
|common_names=S-curve threeawn
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aristida ramosissima var. chaseana
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae;Poaceae tribe Aristideae;Aristida;Aristida ramosissima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Aristideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aristida]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aristida ramosissima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 326
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 20-60 cm, wiry. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths usually shorter than the internodes, mostly glabrous, sparsely hairy near the summit; collars hispidulous, occasionally glabrous; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm; blades 3-22 cm long, to 2 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially, sparsely pilose adaxially, without a prominent midrib but with a thickened vein near each margin, pale to gray-green, sometimes slightly glaucous. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate or racemose, 5-12 cm long, 2-4 cm wide; primary branches barely developed. <b>Spikelets</b> appressed to slightly divergent from the axillary pulvini. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, apices bifid, awned from the sinuses; lower glumes (9)11-16 mm, 3-7-veined, awns 0.5-2(4) mm; upper glumes 11-18 mm, 1-3-veined, awns 3-7 mm; calluses 0.4-1 mm; lemmas (8)15-20(22) mm, dark, occasionally banded or spotted, apices narrowed but not beaklike; central awns 12-25 mm, bases with a semicircular bend; lateral awns 1-4 mm, erect, occasionally lacking; anthers 3, about 3 mm, brown. <b>Caryopses</b> 9-11 mm, dark brown to black. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tenn.;Okla.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ohio;Kans.;Ark.;Ill.;Miss.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Aristida ramosissima</i> grows in open, dry, sterile ground, fallow fields, and roadsides. It is restricted to the United States.</p>
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name=Aristida ramosissima
|author=
|authority=Engelm. ex A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aristida ramosissima var. chaseana
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Tenn.;Okla.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ohio;Kans.;Ark.;Ill.;Miss.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Aristideae
|genus=Aristida
|species=Aristida ramosissima
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