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|accepted_name=Sporobolus junceus
|accepted_authority=(P. Beauv.) Kunth
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|common_names=Piney woods dropseed
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Sporobolus;Sporobolus junceus
|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 junceus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 133
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> (30)40-100 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> rounded below, margins and apices sometimes sparsely ciliate; ligules 0.1-0.2 mm; blades (6)10-30 cm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, flat to tightly involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, margins scabrous, apices pungent. <b>Panicles</b> 7-28 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, open, pyramidal; lower nodes with 3 or more branches; primary branches 0.7-4.5 cm, spreading 20-100° from the rachis, whorled or verticellate, without spikelets on the lower 1/8–1/2; secondary branches appressed; pedicels 0.4-2.5 mm, appressed, scabridulous. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.6-3.8 mm, purplish-red. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate, hyaline to membranous; lower glumes 0.9-3 mm; upper glumes 2.6-3.8 mm, as long as or longer than the florets; lemmas 2-3.6 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous, acute; paleas 2-3.6 mm, ovate, membranous; anthers 1.4-2 mm, purplish. <b>Fruits</b> 1.4-1.8 mm, ellipsoid, somewhat laterally flattened, somewhat rugulose, reddish-brown. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ga.;Ariz.;Fla.
|discussion=<p>Sporobolus junceus grows in openings in pine and hardwood forests, coastal prairies, and pine barrens, usually in sandy to loamy soils, at 2-400 m. Its range lies entirely within the southern United States.</p>
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name=Sporobolus junceus
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|authority=(P. Beauv.) Kunth
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Va.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Ark.;Ga.;Ariz.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Sporobolus
|species=Sporobolus junceus
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