View source for Limnodea ← Limnodea 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=Limnodea |accepted_authority=L.H. Dewey |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Limnodea |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Limnodea]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 24 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 776 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted. <b>Culms</b> to 60 cm, often prostrate and branching at the base, glabrous; internodes solid. <b>Sheaths</b> open or closed, rounded on the back, frequently hispid; auricles absent; ligules membranous, usually lacerate and minutely ciliate; blades flat, mostly ascending, abaxial and/or adaxial surfaces glabrous or hispid. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles, loosely contracted; branches spikelet-bearing to the base or nearly so, some branches longer than 1 cm; disarticulation below the glumes. <b>Spikelets</b> pedicellate, subterete, with 1 floret; rachillas prolonged beyond the base of the floret as a slender bristle, glabrous. <b>Glumes</b> equal, rigid, coriaceous, hispid or scabrous throughout, rounded over the midvein, veinless or obscurely 3-5-veined, acute, unawned; calluses blunt, glabrous; lemmas equaling the glumes, chartaceous, smooth, veinless or inconspicuously 3-veined, minutely bifid or acute, awned, awns subterminal, exceeding the florets, geniculate near midlength, basal segment twisted; paleas shorter than the lemmas, veinless or the base 2-veined, hyaline; lodicules 2, glabrous, toothed or not; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> about 2.5 mm, shorter than the lemmas, concealed at maturity, linear, x = 7.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Okla.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;Ark.;Miss.;S.C.;Fla. |discussion=<p><i>Limnodea</i> is a monotypic genus of the southern United States and adjacent Mexico.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=brandenburg2000b |text=Brandenburg, D.M. and J.W. Thieret. 2000. Cinna and Limnodea (Poaceae): Not congeneric. Sida 19:195-200. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Limnodea |author=Neil Snow; |authority=L.H. Dewey |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |distribution=Okla.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;Ark.;Miss.;S.C.;Fla. |reference=brandenburg2000b |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_1100.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae |genus=Limnodea }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Poaceae tribe Poeae]] 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 Limnodea.