View source for Ehrharta ← Ehrharta You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Ehrharta |accepted_authority=Thunb. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae;Poaceae tribe Ehrharteae;Ehrharta |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Ehrharteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ehrharta]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 24 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 33 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; synoecious. <b>Culms</b> 6-200 cm, sometimes woody, erect to decumbent, sometimes branched above the base, usually pubescent; basal branching intravaginal. <b>Leaves</b> basal or basal and cauline; sheaths terete, open; auricles present, often ciliate; ligules 0.5-3 mm, truncate, membranous or of hairs; blades linear to lanceolate, sometimes disarticulating from the sheaths. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes or panicles; primary branches spreading to ascending; disarticulation above the glumes, not between the florets. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-17 mm, solitary, pedicellate, terete or laterally compressed, with 3 florets, lower 2 florets sterile, at least the upper equaling or exceeding the distal floret, distal floret bisexual. <b>Glumes</b> from about 1/2 as long as to exceeding the florets, (3)5-7-veined. <b>Sterile</b> florets consisting only of lemmas; sterile lemmas firmer than the glumes, glabrous or pubescent, stipitate or non-stipitate, smooth to rugose, unawned or awned, lowest lemma often with lateral earlike appendages at the base, upper lemma subequal to or longer than the distal floret. <b>Bisexual</b> florets: lemmas often indurate at maturity, glabrous, 5-7-veined, keeled, unawned, sometimes mucronate; paleas thinner than the lemmas, 1-2(5)-veined; anthers (1-5)6, yellow; styles 2, fused or free to the base, white or brown. <b>Caryopses</b> laterally compressed, x = 12.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Calif.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Tex. |discussion=<p>Named for Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart (1742-1795), a German botanist of Swiss origin who studied under Linnaeus.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=gibbs1987a |text=Gibbs Russell, G.E. and R.P. Ellis. 1987. Species groups in the genus Ehrharta (Poaceae) in southern Africa. Bothalia 17:51-65 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=gibbs1991b |text=Gibbs Russell, G.E. 1991. Ehrharta Thunb. Pp. 121-129 in G.E. Gibbs Russell, L. Watson, M. Koekemoer, L. Smook, N.P. Barker, H.M. Anderson, and M.J. Dallwitz. Grasses of Southern Africa (ed. O.A. Leistner). National Botanic Gardens, Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. 437 pp. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=jacobs1993a |text=Jacobs, S.W.L. and S.M. Hastings. 1993. Ehrhata. Pp. 652-654 in G.J. Harden (ed.). Flora of New South Wales, vol. 4. New South Wales University Press, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia. 775 pp. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Upper glumes 3/4 - 9/10 the length of the spikelets; sterile lemmas hairy, not transversely rugose |[[Ehrharta calycina|Ehrharta calycina]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Upper glumes less than 3/4 the length of the spikelets; sterile lemmas glabrous or sparsely hispidulous, often transversely rugose distally. |[[#key-0-2| > 2]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Lower sterile lemmas unawned |[[Ehrharta erecta|Ehrharta erecta]] |-id=key-0-2 |2 |Lower sterile lemmas awned, the awns 2-20 mm long |[[Ehrharta longiflora|Ehrharta longiflora]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Ehrharta |author=Mary E. Barkworth; |authority=Thunb. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Calif.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Tex. |reference=gibbs1987a;gibbs1991b;jacobs1993a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_30.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Ehrhartoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Ehrharteae |genus=Ehrharta }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Ehrharteae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Poaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Ehrharta.