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|accepted_name=Piptochaetium setosum
|accepted_authority=(Trin.) Arechav.
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|common_names=Bristly ricegrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Stipeae;Piptochaetium;Piptochaetium setosum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Stipeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Piptochaetium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Piptochaetium setosum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>20-40 cm, prostrate to ascending; nodes 2, dark, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous, smooth; ligules 0.5-2.5 mm, obtuse, membranous, glabrous; blades (3)5-12.5 cm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, glabrous or hispidulous, margins scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 3-15 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, with (5)10-30 spikelets; branches appressed to ascending, glabrous or hispid; pedicels 2-6 mm, hispidulous. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, 5-7 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, purplish at the base; lower glumes (3)5(7)-veined; upper glumes 5(7)-veined; florets 2.5-3 mm long, 1.2-1.8 mm thick, globose to slightly laterally compressed, gibbous; calluses 0.2-0.5 mm, obtuse, antrorsely strigose, hairs whitish to golden; lemmas glabrous, longitudinally striate, constricted below the crown, chestnut brown at maturity; crowns 0.5-0.8 mm wide, straight, not strongly differentiated, distal margins papillose; awns 10-16 mm, once- or twice-geniculate; paleas to 3.2 mm; anthers about 0.5 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 2-2.5 mm, spherical to ellipsoid. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Piptochaetium setosum</i> is native to central Chile. There is an established population in Marin County, California, that grows intermingled with <i>P. stipoides</i>, another South American species. The two species grow in the middle of a dirt track and in the adjacent meadow. The California plants of <i>P. setosum</i> are notable for their prostrate culms. This characteristic was not mentioned by Parodi (1944) or Cialdella and Arriaga (1998).</p><!--
--><p>The origin of the California population is not known. It has been suggested that the seeds might have been brought in by birds, as the area was a bird refuge at one time.</p>
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|authority=(Trin.) Arechav.
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Stipeae
|genus=Piptochaetium
|species=Piptochaetium setosum
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