View source for Buchloë

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Buchloë
|accepted_authority=Engelm.
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Buchloë
|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>[[Buchloë]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 270
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; usually dioecious; strongly stoloniferous, sometimes mat-forming. <b>Culms</b> 1-30 cm, erect, solid, mostly unbranched, those of the pistillate inflorescences much shorter than those of the staminate inflorescences; nodes mostly glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> basally tufted, not clustered or strongly distichous; sheaths open, rounded, often sparsely pilose near the collar; ligules membranous or of hairs; blades usually flat basally, curling when dry, glabrous or sparsely pilose, apices involute. <b>Staminate</b> inflorescences terminal, usually exceeding the upper leaves, panicles of 1-3(4) racemosely arranged, unilateral, pectinate branches; branches not enclosed at maturity, spikelets densely crowded in 2 rows. <b>Staminate</b> spikelets with 2 florets; glumes unequal, glabrous, 1- or 2-veined; lemmas 3-veined, glabrous, unawned; anthers brownish to red or orange. <b>Pistillate</b> inflorescences terminal, panicles, partially hidden within bracteate leaf sheaths; branches 2-3(4), 2.5-4.5 mm, burlike, with 3-5(7) spikelets; disarticulation at the base of the panicle branches. <b>Pistillate</b> spikelets with 1 floret, almost completely enclosed by the upper glumes; lower glumes irregular and reduced; branch axes and lower portion of upper glumes globose, white, indurate, terminating in 3 awnlike teeth; lemmas firmly membranous, glabrous, 3-veined, unawned or shortly 3-awned. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|discussion=<p><i>Buchloë</i> is a monotypic genus of the central plains of North America. It is usually dioecious, infrequently monoecious, or rarely synoecious. On the basis of his molecular studies, Columbus (1999) recommended including it and several other small, usually monoecious or dioecious genera in <i>Bouteloua</i>. Morphologically, the segregate genera differ from <i>Bouteloua</i> only in their pistillate panicles and spikelets and their reproductive mode, but not in their vegetative and staminate structures. <i>Buchloë</i> is maintained here pending corroboration from other studies.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=beetle1950a
|text=Beetle, A.A. 1950. Buffalograss-native of the shortgrass plains. Wyoming Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. 293:1-31
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=columbus1999a
|text=Columbus, J.T. 1999. An expanded circumscription of Bouteloua (Gramineae: Chlorideae): New combinations and names. Aliso 18:61-65
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=quinn1986a
|text=Quinn, J.A. and J.L. Engel. 1986. Life-history strategies and sex ratios for a cultivar and a wild population of Buchloë dactyloides (Gramineae). Amer. J. Bot. 73:874_881
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=wenger1940a
|text=Wenger, L.E. 1940. Inflorescence variations in buffalo grass, Buchloë dactyloides. J. Amer. Soc. Agron. 32:274-277.
}}
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Buchloë
|author=Neil Snow;
|authority=Engelm.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|reference=beetle1950a;columbus1999a;quinn1986a;wenger1940a
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_903.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Buchloë
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]