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|accepted_name=Celtica
|accepted_authority=F.M. Vazquez & Barkworth
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Stipeae;Celtica
|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 Stipeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Celtica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 152
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 100-250 cm, erect, smooth, glabrous, uppermost node often exposed; basal branching intravaginal; prophylls exceeding the subtending leaf sheaths, awned, ciliate or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basally concentrated; cleistogenes not developed; sheaths open to the base, smooth, glabrous except at the throat; auricles absent; ligules membranous, rounded, abaxial surfaces densely pubescent, margins ciliate; blades flat to involute, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces scabrous or hirtellous. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles, nodding, open. <b>Spikelets</b> 25-32 mm, with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the base of the floret; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the floret. <b>Glumes</b> lanceolate, exceeding the floret, 3-veined; florets 14-16 mm, terete to laterally compressed; calluses sharp, strigose; lemmas coriaceous, evenly pubescent, hairs 1-2 mm, margins flat, overlapping at maturity, apices bifid, awned from between the teeth, teeth scarious; awns persistent, twice-geniculate, first segment twisted, terminal segment straight; paleas subequal to or longer than the lemmas, membranous, dorsally pubescent, veins forming 2 awnlike extensions; lodicules 3, glabrous, lanceolate, posterior lodicule larger than the lateral lodicules; anthers 3, penicillate; ovaries glabrous; styles 2. <b>Caryopses</b> fusiform; hila linear, about as long as the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Celtica</i> is a monospecific genus that was formerly included in <i>Stipa</i> or <i>Macrochloa</i>.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=darke1999a
|text=Darke, R. 1999. The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-Tails, and Selected Bamboos. Timber Press, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. 325 pp.
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|id=vazquez2004a
|text=Vazquez, F.M. and M.E. Barkworth. 2004. Resurrection and emendation of Macrochloa (Gramineae: Stipeae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 144:483-495.
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|author=Francisco M. Vazquez;
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
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