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|accepted_name=Allolepis
|accepted_authority=Soderstr. & H.F. Decker
|publications=
|common_names=J.k. wipff
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Allolepis
|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>[[Allolepis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 27
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; dioecious, staminate and pistillate plants similar; stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 10-70 cm. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; ligules membranous, ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles, exceeding the upper leaves; branches appressed or ascending, usually spikelet-bearing to the base. <b>Spikelets</b> not disarticulating. <b>Pistillate</b> spikelets with 5-10 florets; lower glumes 1-5-veined, only the midveins conspicuous; upper glumes with 3 conspicuous veins, sometimes with 2-4 inconspicuous lateral veins; lemmas 3-5(6)-veined, unawned; paleas shorter than the lemmas, completely surrounding the ovaries, saccate basally, narrowing distally and surrounding the styles, intercostal region coriaceous, veins keeled, scabrous and puberulent, margins scarious. <b>Staminate</b> spikelets with 4-21 florets; lower glumes 1-veined; upper glumes 1-3-veined; lemmas conspicuously 3-veined, unawned; paleas equaling or slightly longer than the lemmas, linear, 2-veined, veins ciliolate. <b>Lodicules</b> 2, cuneate. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Allolepis</i> is a monotypic North American genus. It used to be included in <i>Distichlis</i>, but it differs in its paleal morphology, in never producing rhizomes, and in its soil preferences.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=soderstrom1965a
|text=Soderstrom, T.R. and H.F. Decker. 1965. Allolepis: A new segregate of Disticblis (Gramineae). Madrono 18:33-64.
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name=Allolepis
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|authority=Soderstr. & H.F. Decker
|rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Tex.
|reference=soderstrom1965a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Allolepis
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