View source for Eragrostis ciliaris

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis ciliaris
|accepted_authority=(L.) R. Br.
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|common_names=Gophertail lovegrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis ciliaris
|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>[[Eragrostis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eragrostis ciliaris]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 71
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted, without innovations, without glands. <b>Culms</b> (3)9-75 cm, erect or geniculate in the lower portion, not rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> hairy on the margins and at the apices, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm; blades 1.8-12(15) cm long, 2-5 mm wide, usually flat, occasionally involute, glabrous or ciliate basally. <b>Panicles</b> 1.7-15 cm long, 0.2-5 cm wide, cylindrical, contracted or open, branches usually forming glomerate lobes, sometimes more open, often interrupted in the lower portion; primary branches 0.4-4 cm, appressed or diverging to 50° from the rachises; pulvini usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely pilose; pedicels 0.1-1 mm, erect, shorter than the spikelets, glabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.8-3.2 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, elliptical-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, yellowish-brown, sometimes with a purple tinge, with 6-11 florets; disarticulation basipetal, glumes peristent. <b>Glumes</b> ovate to lanceolate, keels scabridulous, veins commonly green, apices acute; lower glumes 0.7-1.2 mm; upper glumes 1-1.6 mm; lemmas 0.8-1.3 mm, elliptical-ovate to lanceolate, membranous, keels scabridulous, lateral veins evident, apices obtuse to acute; paleas 0.8-1.3 mm, membranous, keels prominently ciliate, cilia 0.2-0.8 mm, apices obtuse to acute; anthers 2, 0.1-0.3 mm, purplish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.4-0.5 mm, ovoid, reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;N.J.;Ga.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;S.C.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Eragrostis ciliaris</i> is native to the paleotropics. It is naturalized in parts of the United States, growing along roadsides, on waste sites, in xerothermic vegetation, and sometimes in saline habitats, at 0-200 m. It may be more widespread than indicated.</p>
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==Key==
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|Panicles 0.2-1.5 cm wide, contracted, the branches mostly appressed to the rachises, congested, forming glomerate lobes; spikelets densely packed
|[[Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris|Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Panicles 1.5-5 cm wide, open, the branches spreading 20-50° from the rachises; spikelets widely separated from each other
|[[Eragrostis ciliaris var. laxa|Eragrostis ciliaris var. laxa]]
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|authority=(L.) R. Br.
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|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;N.J.;Ga.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;S.C.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis ciliaris
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