View source for Panicum subg. Agrostoidea

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|accepted_name=Panicum subg. Agrostoidea
|accepted_authority=(Nash) Zuloaga
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Panicum;Panicum subg. Agrostoidea
|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>[[Panicum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Panicum subg. Agrostoidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 475
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; usually cespitose, often from scaly rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> often compressed. <b>Sheaths</b> often keeled; ligules membranous, papery, often erose, usually ciliate; blades with vascular bundles surrounded by a single Kranz sheath with centrifugal chloroplasts and separated by 2-3 isodiametric mesophyll cells; chloroplasts without well-developed grana. <b>Photosynthesis</b> of the C4 NADP-me type. <b>Panicles</b> contracted to lax, usually with many spikelets; secondary branches usually present; pedicels short. <b>Spikelets</b> ovoid to ellipsoid, glabrous. <b>Lower</b> glumes varying in length, 0-3-veined (rarely 7-veined); upper glumes and lower lemmas usually 3-5-veined (rarely 7-11-veined); lower florets usually sterile, occasionally staminate; lower paleas absent, small, or large, not thickened; upper florets variable, x = 9 or 10.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Panicum </i>subg.<i> Agrostoidea</i> is found primarily in warm temperate to tropical regions of the New World, extending from the southern United States through South America. One section is native to India. Species of subg. Agrostoidea usually grow in open but mesic places, such as the edges of streams, rivers, ponds, and wet meadows.</p>
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name=Panicum subg. Agrostoidea
|authority=(Nash) Zuloaga
|rank=subgenus
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|family=Poaceae
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Panicum
|subgenus=Panicum subg. Agrostoidea
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