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|accepted_name=Chloris pilosa
|accepted_authority=Schumach.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Chloris;Chloris pilosa
|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>[[Chloris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chloris pilosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 210
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or short-lived perennials; sometimes shortly stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 30-70(200) cm, erect or somewhat decumbent. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or sparsely to densely pilose; blades to 30 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, with coarse hairs behind the ligule and on the lower portion of the margins. <b>Panicles</b> digitate, with 5-9 clearly distinct or easily separable branches; branches 3-5 cm, with 5-7 spikelets per cm. <b>Spikelets</b> barely imbricate, pale to dark gray, often mottled when mature, with 1 bisexual and (1)2 sterile florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 1.1-1.6 mm; upper glumes 1.9-2.3 mm, awned, awns to 0.3 mm; lowest lemmas 2.3-3.5 mm, broadly ovate or elliptic, keels gibbous, sides with a conspicuous glabrous or pubescent groove, margins glabrous or appressed pubescent, apices awned, awns to 6 mm; second florets 1.5-2.2 mm, widened and inflated distally, mucronate or awned, awns to 3 mm; distal florets less than 1 mm, turbinate; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.3-1.5 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, trigonous. <b>2n</b> = 20, 30.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Chloris pilosa</i> is native to equatorial Africa, but it is sometimes planted for forage. It has been collected in Kleberg County, Texas, possibly from an experimental forage planting; it is not known to be established in the Flora region.</p>
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name=Chloris pilosa
|authority=Schumach.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Annaliese Miller
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Chloris
|species=Chloris pilosa
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