View source for Eragrostis amabilis

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|accepted_name=Eragrostis amabilis
|accepted_authority=(L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
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|common_names=Japanese lovegrass
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|name=Eragrostis tenella
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Eragrostis;Eragrostis amabilis
|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 amabilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 72
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; cespitose, without innovations, without glands. <b>Culms</b> 5-40 cm, erect, glabrous, occasionally with oblong glandular areas below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> hairy on the distal margins and at the apices, hairs to 4 mm, stiff; ligules 0.2-0.3 mm; blades 2-8 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, bases occasionally with papillose-based hairs. <b>Panicles</b> 4-15 cm long, 1-7 cm wide, cylindrical to narrowly ovate, open, rachises sometimes glandular below the nodes; primary branches 0.5-4 cm, diverging 20-100° from the rachises; pulvini sparsely pilose; pedicels 1-4(7) mm, as long as or longer than the spikelets, mostly pendent, lax, terete. <b>Spikelets</b> (1)1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.9-1.4 mm wide, ovate to oblong, reddish-purple to greenish, with 4-8 florets; disarticulation basipetal, glumes persistent. <b>Glumes</b> ovate, hyaline, keeled, veins commonly green; lower glumes 0.4-0.7 mm; upper glumes 0.7-1 mm; lemmas 0.7-1.1 mm, ovate to broadly oblong, membranous, lateral veins usually greenish, apices truncate to obtuse; paleas 0.6-1.1 mm, hyaline, keels ciliate, cilia 0.3-0.5 mm, apices obtuse to truncate; anthers 3, about 0.2 mm, purplish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.3-0.5 mm, ellipsoid, translucent, light brown. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Ga.;Tex.;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;S.C.;Ala.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Eragrostis amabilis</i> is native to the Eastern Hemisphere. It is now naturalized in the southeastern United States, growing in open areas such as cultivated fields, forest margins, and roadsides at 0-200 m.</p>
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name=Eragrostis amabilis
|author=
|authority=(L.) Wight & Arn. ex Nees
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eragrostis tenella
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Ga.;Tex.;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;S.C.;Ala.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Eragrostis
|species=Eragrostis amabilis
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