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|accepted_name=Lamarckia
|accepted_authority=Moench
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Lamarckia
|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>[[Lamarckia]]</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; tufted. <b>Culms</b> 5-40 cm, erect or decumbent at the base, glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> open for at least 1/3 their length, glabrous, margins membranous and continuous with the ligules; auricles absent; ligules membranous, acute, glabrous, apices somewhat erose; blades flat, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles, dense, secund, golden-yellow to purplish; primary branches appressed to the rachis; secondary branches capillary, smooth, glabrous, flexuous, terminating in 1-4 fascicles of pedicellate spikelets, strongly bent below the junction with the fascicle base; pedicels of spikelets in each fascicle fused at the base, strigose. <b>Spikelets</b> dimorphic, the terminal spikelet of each fascicle fertile, the others sterile; disarticulation at the base of the fused pedicels. <b>Fertile</b> spikelets terete to somewhat laterally compressed, with 2 florets, 1 bisexual, the other a rudiment, borne on long rachilla internodes; calluses short, blunt, glabrous; glumes narrow, acuminate or short-awned, 1-veined; bisexual lemmas scarcely veined, each with a delicate, straight, subapical awn; paleas equal or subequal to the lemmas; lodicules 2, glabrous, toothed; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous; rudimentary florets highly reduced lemmas, each with a delicate, straight awn. <b>Sterile</b> spikelets linear, laterally compressed; florets 5-10; glumes similar to those of the fertile spikelets; lemmas imbricate, obtuse, unawned; paleas absent. <b>Caryopses</b> ovoid or ellipsoid, adhering to the lemmas and/or paleas. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Lamarckia</i> is a monotypic genus that has been introduced into North America from the Mediterranean and the Middle East.</p>
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name=Lamarckia
|author=Lynn G. Clark;
|authority=Moench
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Tex.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Lamarckia
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