View source for Vahlodea ← Vahlodea 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=Vahlodea |accepted_authority=Fr. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Vahlodea |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>[[Vahlodea]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 24 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 691 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15-80 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> open nearly to the base; auricles absent; ligules membranous; blades rolled in the bud, flat. <b>Inflorescences</b> open or closed panicles; branches often flexuous, capillary, spikelets distal, some branches longer than 1 cm. <b>Spikelets</b> pedicellate, usually with 2 florets, sometimes with additional distal rudimentary florets; rachillas prolonged beyond the base of the distal florets about 0.5 mm or less, usually glabrous, sometimes with a few hairs; first internodes about 0.5 mm; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the florets. <b>Glumes</b> subequal to equal, equaling or exceeding the florets, membranous, acute to acuminate, unawned; lower glumes 1(3)-veined; upper glumes 3-veined; calluses obtuse, pilose, hairs about 1/2 as long as the lemmas; lemmas ovate, with 5(7) obscure veins, awned, awns attached near the middle of the lemmas, twisted, geniculate, visible between the glumes; paleas subequal to the lemmas; lodicules 2, membranous, toothed or not toothed; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> shorter than the lemmas, concealed at maturity, ellipsoid and irregularly triangular or ovate in cross section, deeply grooved, sometimes adhering to the lemmas and paleas; hila linear to oblong, 1/4-1/2 the length of the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Maine;N.H.;Colo.;Wash.;N.Y.;Alaska;Vt.;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Mont.;Idaho;Calif.;Wyo.;Oreg. |discussion=<p><i>Vahlodea</i> is a monotypic genus with a discontinuous circumboreal distribution. It also grows in southern South America. The genus is sometimes included in <i>Deschampsia</i>, from which it differs in having loosely cespitose shoots and leaves that are usually mostly cauline, rather than mostly basal as in the perennial species of <i>Deschampsia</i>. The rachilla is prolonged beyond the upper floret for less than 0.5 mm in <i>Vahlodea</i> and is usually glabrous or has only a few hairs. In <i>Deschampsia</i>, the rachilla is usually prolonged more than 0.5 mm and is usually densely pubescent with long hairs. The caryopses of <i>Vahlodea</i> are ellipsoid, irregularly triangular or ovate in cross section, deeply grooved, and with a hilum 1/4-1/2 the length of the caryopsis. In <i>Deschampsia</i>, the caryopses are narrowly ellipsoid to fusiform, elliptic or ovate in cross section, grooved or not, and with a hilum 1/10-1/3 the length of the caryopsis.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=haraldsen1991a |text=Haraldsen, K.B., M. 0degaard, and I. Nordal. 1991. Variation in the amphi-Atlantic plant Vahlodea atropurpurea (Poaceas). J. Biogeogr. 18:311-320. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Vahlodea |author=Jacques Cayouette;Stephen J. Darbyshire; |authority=Fr. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Maine;N.H.;Colo.;Wash.;N.Y.;Alaska;Vt.;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;Man.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Mont.;Idaho;Calif.;Wyo.;Oreg. |reference=haraldsen1991a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_978.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae |genus=Vahlodea }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Poeae]] 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 Vahlodea.