View source for Triplasis ← Triplasis You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Triplasis |accepted_authority=P. Beauv. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Triplasis |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>[[Triplasis]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 25 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 41 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; cespitose, occasionally rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 14-100 cm, ascending to erect; nodes pubescent to hirsute. <b>Sheaths</b> open; auricles absent; ligules of hairs or membranous and ciliate; blades 1-5 mm wide, flat or involute. <b>Primary</b> inflorescences terminal, open panicles, with few spikelets, exerted or partially included in the upper sheath, apices exceeding the upper leaf blades, axillary panicles sometimes also present; cleistogamous inflorescences also present in the upper sheaths. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, purplish, with 2-5 florets; sterile florets above the fertile florets; rachillas prolonged; disarticulation above the glumes and beneath the florets and, subsequently, at the cauline nodes. <b>Glumes</b> equal or unequal, shorter than the first lemma, 1-veined, keeled; calluses hairy; lemmas 3-veined, veins villous, apices bilobed to incised, midveins sometimes extending into an awn, awns to 11 mm; paleas bowed-out, keels hairy, distal hairs 0.5-2 mm, longer than those below; lodicules 2, truncate; anthers 3, yellow or reddish-purple; stigmas pink to purple. <b>Caryopses</b> dorsiventrally compressed, x = 10.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Del.;Wis.;Fla.;N.H.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Ont.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;R.I.;Miss.;Oreg. |discussion=<p><i>Triplasis</i> is an American genus of two species that is probably related to <i>Tridens</i>. The disarticulating culm, which helps disperse the cleistogenes, aids in distinguishing <i>Triplasis</i> from other genera.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Lemmas with lobes 4.5-8 mm long, tapering to acute tips; lemma awns 5-11 mm long; culm internodes puberulent to pilose |[[Triplasis americana|Triplasis americana]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Lemmas with lobes about 1 mm long, rounded; lemma awns less than 2 mm long; culm internodes glabrous |[[Triplasis purpurea|Triplasis purpurea]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Triplasis |author=Stephan L. Hatch; |authority=P. Beauv. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Conn.;N.J.;N.Y.;Del.;Wis.;Fla.;N.H.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Colo.;Ont.;Ala.;Kans.;N.Dak.;Nebr.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;R.I.;Miss.;Oreg. |reference=None |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_64.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae |genus=Triplasis }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Return to Triplasis.