View source for Sporobolus wrightii

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sporobolus wrightii
|accepted_authority=Munro ex Scribn.
|publications=
|common_names=Big alkali sacaton
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Sporobolus;Sporobolus wrightii
|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>[[Sporobolus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sporobolus wrightii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 126
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 90-250 cm, stout. <b>Sheaths</b> rounded below, shiny, glabrous, rarely sparsely hairy apically, hairs to 6 mm; ligules 1-2 mm; blades 20-70 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, flat (rarely involute), glabrous abaxially, scabrous adaxially, margins scabrous; flag blades ascending. <b>Panicles</b> 20-60 cm long, 12-26 cm wide, open, broadly lanceolate, exserted; primary branches 1.5-10 cm, spreading 20-70° from the rachis; secondary branches appressed, spikelet-bearing to the base; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 0.2-0.5 mm, mostly appressed. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.5-2.5 mm, crowded, purplish or greenish. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, lanceolate to ovate, membranous; lower glumes 0.5-1 mm, often appearing veinless; upper glumes 0.8-2 mm, 2/3 or more as long as the florets; lemmas 1.2-2.5 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous, acute to obtuse; paleas 1.1-2.5 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous; anthers 1.1-1.3 mm, yellowish to purplish. <b>Fruits</b> 1-1.4 mm, ellipsoid, reddish-brown or blackish, striate. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Okla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;S.C.;Ariz.
|discussion=<p>Sporobolus wrightii grows in moist clay flats and on rocky slopes near saline habitats, at elevations of 5-1800 m. Its range extends to central Mexico.</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Sporobolus wrightii
|author=
|authority=Munro ex Scribn.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik and Hana Pazdírková
|distribution=Okla.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;S.C.;Ariz.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/314eb390f968962f596ae85f506b4b3db8683b1b/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_678.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Sporobolus
|species=Sporobolus wrightii
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Sporobolus]]