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|accepted_name=Redfieldia
|accepted_authority=Vasey
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Redfieldia
|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>[[Redfieldia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 41
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; with extensive, often deep, horizontal or vertical rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 50-130 cm, erect, bases usually buried and rooting at the nodes. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths shorter than the internodes, open, ribbed; ligules membranous, ciliate; auricles absent; blades loosely involute, sometimes scabridulous, apices attenuate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, conical to oblong panicles, open to diffuse, exceeding the upper leaves; branches slender, widely spreading. <b>Pedicels</b> longer than the spikelets, capillary, flexible. <b>Spikelets</b> ovate to obovate, olive-green to brownish, with (1)2-6 florets; sterile florets distal to the bisexual florets; disarticulation above the glumes and below the florets. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, usually exceeded by the florets, glabrous, acute; lower glumes 1-veined; upper glumes 1- or 3-veined; calluses with a tuft of soft hairs; lemmas lanceolate to falcate, glabrous or shortly pubescent, at least on the distal 2/3, 3-veined, lateral veins converging distally, apices acute to awn-tipped, entire or with 3 minute teeth; anthers 3. <b>x</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Mont.;Ill.;Ariz.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Redfieldia</i> is a monotypic genus that is endemic to the Flora region.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=reeder1976a
|text=Reeder, J.R. 1976. Systematic position of Redfieldia (Gramineae). Madrono 23:434-438.
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name=Redfieldia
|author=Stephan L. Hatch;
|authority=Vasey
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Mont.;Ill.;Ariz.;Wyo.
|reference=reeder1976a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Redfieldia
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