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|accepted_name=Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon
|accepted_authority=(Elliott) Gould
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|common_names=Round-fruited panicgrass
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Panicum sphaerocarpon var. inflatum
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Dichanthelium;Dichanthelium sect. Sphaerocarpa;Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon
|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>[[Dichanthelium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Dichanthelium sect. Sphaerocarpa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 441
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose. <b>Basal</b> rosettes well-differentiated; blades 2-6 cm long, about 1 cm wide, ovate, the uppermost leaves often resembling the lower cauline blades. <b>Culms</b> 15-50 cm, few together, decumbent or ascending, light green, glabrous, slightly fleshy or thickened; fall phase branching mostly near the bases, with sparse branching; nodes appressed-pubescent or glabrous. <b>Cauline</b> leaves 3-4(6); sheaths sometimes overlapping near the bases, glabrous, margins ciliate; ligules almost obsolete, or of 0.2-0.8 mm hairs from a tiny membranous base; blades 1.5-10 cm long, 5-14 mm wide, thick, light green, faintly veined, bases cordate, with papillose-based cilia, margins white, cartilaginous. <b>Primary</b> panicles 4-14 cm, more than 1/2 as wide as long, usually long-exserted. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.4-1.8 mm, broadly obovoid-spherical, usually puberulent, sometimes glabrous. <b>Lower</b> glumes 0.4-0.8 mm, acute to obtuse, upper florets 1.1-1.5 mm, broadly ellipsoid, blunt. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Fla.;N.H.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Va.;Ont.;Conn.;Mass.;R.I.;Vt.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.;D.C.
|discussion=<p><i>Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon</i> grows in dry, open woods and roadsides. Its range extends from eastern North America to Ecuador and Venezuela. It occasionally hybridizes with other species, including <i>D. polyanthes</i>, <i>D. acuminatum</i>, and <i>D. laxiflorum</i>.</p>
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name=Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon
|authority=(Elliott) Gould
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Panicum sphaerocarpon var. inflatum;Panicum sphaerocarpon
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|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Del.;W.Va.;Fla.;N.H.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Va.;Ont.;Conn.;Mass.;R.I.;Vt.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Ohio;Mo.;Mich.;Miss.;Ky.;D.C.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Dichanthelium
|section=Dichanthelium sect. Sphaerocarpa
|species=Dichanthelium sphaerocarpon
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