View source for Glyceria nubigena

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|accepted_name=Glyceria nubigena
|accepted_authority=W.A. Anderson
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|common_names=Great smoky mountain mannagrass;Great smoky mountain glyceria
|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Meliceae;Glyceria;Glyceria sect. Striatae;Glyceria nubigena
|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 Meliceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Glyceria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Glyceria sect. Striatae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Glyceria nubigena]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 75
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Culms</b> 100-200 cm tall, 3-5 mm thick, smooth. <b>Sheaths</b> smooth or scabridulous, weakly keeled; ligules 1-1.5 mm, truncate; blades to 45 cm long, 6-10 mm wide, abaxial surfaces smooth or scabrous, adaxial surfaces scabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 20-30 cm long, 7.5-14 cm wide, open, pyramidal; branches 7.5-14 cm, spreading or reflexed, lax, with 16-80 spikelets; pedicels 2-7 mm. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.5-5.5 mm long, 2-3(3.5) mm wide, laterally compressed, oval in side view, with 3-5 florets. <b>Glumes</b> tapering from below midlength to the narrowly (< 45°) acute apices, veins not extending to the apices; lower glumes 0.8-1.5 mm; upper glumes 1.8-2.2 mm; rachilla internodes about 0.5 mm; lemmas 2.2-2.7 mm, 0.9-1.1 mm wide in dorsal view, veins distinctly raised, usually smooth over and between the veins, sometimes scabridulous over the veins, apices acute, prow-shaped; paleas slightly shorter than the lemmas, lengths 2-2.7 times widths, keels not winged, tips incurved, apices narrowly notched between the keels; anthers 2, about 1.5 mm, dehiscent at maturity. <b>Caryopses</b> about 1.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tenn.;N.C.
|discussion=<p>Glyceria nubigena is known only from moist areas of balds and high ridges in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee.</p>
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|authority=W.A. Anderson
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Tenn.;N.C.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Meliceae
|genus=Glyceria
|section=Glyceria sect. Striatae
|species=Glyceria nubigena
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