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|accepted_name=Muhlenbergia minutissima
|accepted_authority=(Steud.) Swallen
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|common_names=Annual muhly
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sporobolus microspermus
|authority=unknown
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|name=Sporobolus confusus
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Muhlenbergia;Muhlenbergia minutissima
|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>[[Muhlenbergia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Muhlenbergia minutissima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 198
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 5-40 cm, slender, erect; internodes mostly glabrous, scabridulous or smooth, scabridulous or strigulose below the nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> shorter or longer than the internodes, smooth or scabridulous; ligules 1-2.6 mm, hyaline, truncate to obtuse, sometimes with lateral lobes; blades 0.5-4(10) cm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, flat or involute, scabrous abaxially, shortly pubescent adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> 5-16.2(21) cm long, 1.5-6.5 cm wide, open; primary branches 8-42 mm, often capillary, diverging 25-80° from the rachises; pedicels 2-7 mm, straight or curved, but rarely curved as much as 90°. <b>Spikelets</b> 0.8-1.5 mm. <b>Glumes</b> sparsely strigulose, at least near the apices, 1-veined; lower glumes 0.5-0.8 mm, obtuse to acute; upper glumes 0.6-0.9 mm, broader than the lower glumes, obtuse; lemmas 0.8-1.5 mm, lanceolate, brownish to purplish, glabrous or the midveins and margins appressed-pubescent, apices obtuse to subacute, unawned; paleas 0.8-1.4 mm, shortly pubescent or glabrous; anthers 0.2-0.7 mm, purplish. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.6-0.9 mm, fusiform to elliptic, brownish. <b>2n</b> = 60, 80.</span><!--

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|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Oreg.;Mont.;Wyo.;Wash.;Ariz.;Idaho;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Muhlenbergia minutissima</i> grows in sandy and gravelly drainages, rocky slopes, flats, road cuts, and open sites. It is usually found in yellow pine and oak-pine forests, pinyon-juniper woodlands, thorn-scrub forests, and oak-gramma savannahs, at elevations of 1200-3000 m. Its range extends from the western United States to southern Mexico.</p>
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name=Muhlenbergia minutissima
|author=
|authority=(Steud.) Swallen
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sporobolus microspermus;Sporobolus confusus
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Oreg.;Mont.;Wyo.;Wash.;Ariz.;Idaho;Nev.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Muhlenbergia
|species=Muhlenbergia minutissima
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