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|accepted_name=Beckmannia
|accepted_authority=Host
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Beckmannia
|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 Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Beckmannia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 484
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual and tufted, or perennial and rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 20-150 cm, sometimes tuberous at the base, erect. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; sheaths open, glabrous, ribbed; auricles absent; ligules membranous, acute; blades flat, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> dense, spikelike panicles; branches 1-sided, racemosely arranged, secondary branches few, at least some branches longer than 1 cm, with closely imbricate spikelets; disarticulation below the glumes, the spikelets falling entire. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, circular, ovate or obovate in side view, subsessile, with 1-2 florets; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the distal floret. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, slightly shorter than the lemmas, inflated, keeled, D-shaped in side view, unawned; calluses blunt, glabrous; lemmas lanceolate, inconspicuously 5-veined, unawned; paleas subequal to the lemmas; lodicules 2, free; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> shorter than the lemmas, concealed at maturity, x = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Pa.;Calif.;Nev.;Colo.;Alaska;Ill.;Iowa;Ariz.;Idaho;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Maine;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Kans.;Mont.;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;Nfld. And Labr. (Nfld.);Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Beckmannia</i> is a genus of two species: an annual species usually with one fertile floret per spikelet that is native to North America and Asia, and a perennial species with two fertile florets per spikelet that is restricted to Eurasia.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=reeder1953a
|text=Reeder, J.R. 1953. Affinities of the grass genus Beckmannia Host. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 80:187-196.
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name=Beckmannia
|author=Stephan L. Hatch;
|authority=Host
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda Ann Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wash.;Wis.;Wyo.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;Pa.;Calif.;Nev.;Colo.;Alaska;Ill.;Iowa;Ariz.;Idaho;N.Dak.;Nebr.;S.Dak.;Maine;Ohio;Utah;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.;Kans.;Mont.;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;Nfld. And Labr. (Nfld.);Man.;N.B.;N.S.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Beckmannia
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