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|accepted_name=Eriochloa fatmensis
|accepted_authority=(Hochst. & Steud.) Clayton
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Eriochloa;Eriochloa fatmensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eriochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriochloa fatmensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 511
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 30-120 cm, erect or decumbent, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes; nodes and internodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth, glabrous; ligules 0.5-1 mm; blades 6-40 cm long, 3-8 mm wide, linear, flat to involute, glabrous adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> 6-18 cm long, 0.8-3 cm wide; rachises smooth or scabrous; branches 3-10, 25-60 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, sometimes winged, glabrous, with 20-40 spikelets, spikelets solitary or in unequally pedicellate pairs at the middle of the branches; pedicels 0.2-0.8 mm, glabrous or hairy below, apices with fewer than 10 hairs to 0.5 mm long. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.7-3.6 mm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide, lanceolate. <b>Upper</b> glumes 1.1-1.3 times longer than the lower lemmas, hairy, 5-veined, apices acuminate and acute to awned, awns 0.3-1.5 mm; lower lemmas 2.5-3.3 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, setose, apices acuminate and mucronate; lower paleas absent; anthers absent; upper lemmas 1.7-2.2 mm, elliptic, acute to rounded, awned, awns 0.2-0.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.;Miss.
|discussion=<p><i>Eriochloa fatmensis</i> is native to tropical Africa, Arabia, and India, where it usually grows in wet areas or grasslands. It has been found in Tucson, Arizona, and Biloxi, Mississippi, but is probably not established in the Flora region.</p>
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name=Eriochloa fatmensis
|authority=(Hochst. & Steud.) Clayton
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Calif.;Ariz.;Miss.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Eriochloa
|species=Eriochloa fatmensis
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