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|accepted_name=Arthraxon hispidus
|accepted_authority=(Thunb.) Makino
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|common_names=Jointhead;Small carpetgrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Arthraxon;Arthraxon hispidus
|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>[[Arthraxon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arthraxon hispidus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 677
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 0.5-1(2) m, weak, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes; nodes hispid. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths usually shorter than the internodes; ligules 0.4-3.5 mm, ciliate; lower blades 1-7.5 cm long, 4-20 mm wide, cordate-clasping, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, flat, margins ciliate (sometimes sparingly so), surfaces usually glabrous, abaxial surface rarely hispidulous; upper blades greatly reduced. <b>Panicles</b> 1.3-7 cm, flabellate or contracted, with 12-20 rames; rames 1-6(11) cm. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets: glumes 3-5.5 mm, lanceolate; lower glumes several-veined; upper glumes 1- or 3-veined; awns 0.3-9 mm, included or exserted, usually twisted below, sometimes geniculate at midlength; anthers usually 2, 0.5-0.7 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> absent or to 2 mm. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets absent. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);N.J.;N.Y.;Fla.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Ind.;Ohio;Ala.;Miss.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Mass.;Md.;Okla.;D.C;Oreg.;Mo.;Kans.;Ky.
|discussion=<p>Arthraxon hispidus is native to Asia, but is naturalized and spreading along roadsides, shores, ditches and in low woods and fields of the eastern United States. It is also naturalized in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Plants in the Flora region belong to A. hispidus (Thunb.) Makino var. hispidus, the most widespread and variable of the four varieties. Arthraxon castratus (Griff.) V. Naray. ex Bor reported from Puerto Rico, differs from A. hispidus in having pilose lemma margins, a palea in its second floret, and three anthers.</p>
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name=Arthraxon hispidus
|author=
|authority=(Thunb.) Makino
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Hana Pazdírková
|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);N.J.;N.Y.;Fla.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Va.;Ind.;Ohio;Ala.;Miss.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Mass.;Md.;Okla.;D.C;Oreg.;Mo.;Kans.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Arthraxon
|species=Arthraxon hispidus
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