View source for Swallenia ← Swallenia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Swallenia |accepted_authority=Soderstr. & H.F. Decker |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Swallenia |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>[[Swallenia]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 25 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 24 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; clumped, rhizomes woody. <b>Culms</b> 10-60 cm, branched above the base. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal; auricles absent; ligules of hairs; blades flat, strongly veined, sharply pointed. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, usually exceeding the upper leaves, contracted panicles; branches ascend¬ing to erect; disarticulation beneath the caryopses. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, unawned, with 3-7 bisexual florets, distal florets reduced. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, longer than the adjacent lemmas but exceeded by the distal florets, acuminate; lower glumes 5-7-veined; upper glumes 7-11-veined; calluses hairy; lemmas membranous to papery, 5-7-veined, densely villous on the margins, sometimes also between the veins, unawned to mucronate; paleas equaling or exceed¬ing the lemmas; anthers 3. <b>Caryopses</b> falling free from the lemma and palea. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Calif. |discussion=<p><i>Swallenia</i> is a monotypic genus, endemic to California. It is unusual in that only its caryopses break off the plant.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=gomez-sanchez2001a |text=Gomez-Sanchez, M., P. Davila-Aranda, and J. Valdes-Reyna. Estudio anatomica de Swallenia (Poaceae: Eragroistideae: Monanthochloinae), un genero monotipico de Norte America. Madrono 48:152-161 (2001) [publication date 2002] }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=henry1979a |text=Henry, M.A. 1979. A rare grass on the Eureka dunes. Fremontia 7:3-6 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=pavlik1988a |text=Pavlik, B.M. and M.G. Barbour. 1988. Demographic monitoring of endemic sand dune plants, Eureka Valley, California. Biol. Conservation 46:217-242. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Swallenia |authority=Soderstr. & H.F. Decker |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Calif. |reference=gomez-sanchez2001a;henry1979a;pavlik1988a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_32.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae |genus=Swallenia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Swallenia.