View source for Elionurus ← Elionurus 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=Elionurus |accepted_authority=Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym |name=Elyonurus |authority= |rank=genus }} |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Elionurus |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 Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Elionurus]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 25 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 684 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, occasionally annual; cespitose, sometimes with short rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 10-150 cm, erect, sometimes branching above the base. <b>Leaves</b> sometimes aromatic; sheaths without glandular pits; ligules shortly membranous and densely ciliate or of hairs; blades involute, flat, or folded. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, sometimes also axillary, composed of solitary, flexuous rames; rame internodes columnar to clavate, apices strongly oblique, not hollowed or rimmed; disarticulation in the rames, below the sessile spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> in sessile-pedicellate pairs. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets dorsally compressed; calluses blunt, sometimes resembling a short pedicel; lower glumes enclosing the upper glumes, subcoriaceous, 2-keeled, keels prominently ciliate, intercarinal surface smooth, apices cuspidate to bilobed, rarely entire; lower florets reduced, sterile; upper florets bisexual, unawned. <b>Pedicels</b> stout, appressed but not fused to the rame axes, pubescent or ciliate on the angles. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets 3-8 mm, about equal to the sessile spikelets, staminate, muticous to awn-tipped, x = 5.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Ga.;Tex.;Ala.;Miss.;Ariz.;Fla.;N.Mex. |discussion=<p><i>Elionurus</i> has 15 species. Most of the species are native to tropical Africa and America; one species is Australian. Several of the species are considered important elements of native pastures, but neither of the two species native to the Flora region is ever sufficiently abundant to be important in this regard.</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Lower glumes densely pilose; pedicels pilose dorsally; culms antrorsely hirsute below the nodes |[[Elionurus barbiculmis|Elionurus barbiculmis]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Lower glumes glabrous or nearly so; pedicels ciliate on the angles, usually glabrous elsewhere; culms glabrous throughout |[[Elionurus tripsacoides|Elionurus tripsacoides]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Elionurus |author=Mary E. Barkworth; |authority=Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms=Elyonurus |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Ga.;Tex.;Ala.;Miss.;Ariz.;Fla.;N.Mex. |reference=None |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1637.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae |genus=Elionurus }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]] 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/ID/Synonym (view source) Return to Elionurus.