View source for Sporobolus curtissii

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|accepted_name=Sporobolus curtissii
|accepted_authority=Small ex Kearney
|publications=
|common_names=Curtiss' dropseed
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Sporobolus;Sporobolus curtissii
|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>[[Sporobolus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sporobolus curtissii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 135
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 30-80(90) cm. <b>Sheaths</b> shiny and indurate basally, glabrous or appressed hairy elsewhere, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.2-0.6 mm; blades 5-22(28) cm long, 0.8-2(2.2) mm wide, flat to v-shaped in cross section, folded or involute when dry, green, remaining so well into winter, glabrous abaxially, mostly glabrous adaxially but densely pilose basally, margins glabrous or scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 10-25 cm long, 2-10(13) cm wide, longer than wide, open (contracted when immature), not diffuse, pyramidal to ovate; lower nodes with 1-2(3) branches; primary branches 2-9(10) cm, ascending or spreading to 80° from the rachis, not capillary, without spikelets on the lower 1/3; secondary branches mostly appressed; pulvini glabrous or hairy; pedicels 0.5-4(8) mm, usually shorter than the spikelets, appressed, glabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.5-6.6 mm, purplish-brown. <b>Glumes</b> equal to subequal, linear-lanceolate, membranous; lower glumes (2.9)3.5-6.2 mm, 0.9-1.2(1.3) times as long as the upper glumes; upper glumes 3.2-6.6 mm, from almost as long as to longer than the florets; lemmas 3.4-4.5 mm, ovate to lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, acute; paleas 3.4-4.5 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous; anthers 1.5-2.8 mm, yellow to purplish. <b>Fruits</b> 1.1-1.4 mm, fusiform, reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=S.C.;Fla.;Ala.;Ga.
|discussion=<p><i>Sporobolus curtissii</i> is restricted to the southeastern United States, where it grows in dry-mesic to moist flat-woods, in soils seasonally saturated at the surface or rather well-drained throughout the year. Its elevational range is 0-100 m.</p>
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name=Sporobolus curtissii
|authority=Small ex Kearney
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=S.C.;Fla.;Ala.;Ga.
|reference=None
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|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_692.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Sporobolus
|species=Sporobolus curtissii
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