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|accepted_name=Eremochloa
|accepted_authority=Biise
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Eremochloa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eremochloa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 688
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, sometimes stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 10-70 cm, herbaceous, erect to decumbent, basal branching extravaginal. <b>Leaves</b> not aromatic; sheaths open; auricles absent; ligules membranous, truncate; blades flaccid, linear to lanceolate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, of long-pedunculate, solitary, 1-sided rames (axillary rames occasionally present) with more than 1 spikelet unit; rame internodes clavate, glabrous; disarticulation in the rames. <b>Spikelets</b> in heteromorphic sessile-pedicellate pairs, pedicellate spikelets absent or rudimentary. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets imbricate, not embedded in the rame axes, dorsally compressed, with 2 florets, unawned; calluses truncate; glumes exceeding the florets, differing in shape; lower glumes 4-9-veined, 2-keeled, keels with spinelike projections and often winged distally, smooth between the keels, margins folded inward; upper glumes often shorter than the lower glumes, 3-5-veined, keels entire; lower florets staminate; lower paleas present; upper florets bisexual or pistillate; lemmas and paleas hyaline, unawned; anthers 3; style branches 2, red, free to the base. <b>Pedicels</b> closely appressed but not fused to the rame axes, flattened, thick, widening above the bases, glabrous. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets usually absent or rudimentary, occasionally well-developed, x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Va.;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ga.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Eremochloa</i> is a genus of 11 species that are native to Asia and Australia. One species is naturalized in the southeastern United States; another was found once in California but is not established in the Flora region.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=buitenhuis2001a
|text=Buitenhuis, A.G. and J.F. Veldkamp. 2001. Revision of Eremochloa (Gramineae-Andropogoneae-Rottboellinae). Blumea 46:399-420.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Keels of the lower glumes of the sessile spikelets winged distally, with 1-several 0.2-0.3 mm hooklike spines at the base
|[[Eremochloa ophiuroides|Eremochloa ophiuroides]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Keels of the lower glumes of the sessile spikelets not winged, spine-bearing throughout, the basal spines 1-3 mm
|[[Eremochloa ciliaris|Eremochloa ciliaris]]
|}
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name=Eremochloa
|author=John W. Thieret;
|authority=Biise
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Va.;Mass.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ga.;Fla.
|reference=buitenhuis2001a
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Eremochloa
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