View source for Phippsia ← Phippsia 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=Phippsia |accepted_authority=(Trin.) R. Br. |publications= |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Phippsia |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>[[Phippsia]]</div></div> |volume=Volume 24 |mention_page= |treatment_page=page 478 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>usually perennial, annual in some environments that have a sufficient growing season for seed production in a single year; cespitose or matlike. <b>Culms</b> 2-19 cm, erect or procumbent, not rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous; prophylls 4-10 mm. <b>Sheaths</b> not inflated, those of the basal leaves usually fused only near the base, those of the flag leaves closed for at least 1/2 their length; auricles absent; ligules membranous, glabrous, acute; blades flat or conduplicate. <b>Inflorescences</b> panicles, dense or diffuse. <b>Spikelets</b> pedicellate, with 1 floret, laterally compressed to nearly terete; rachillas not prolonged beyond the florets; disarticulation above the glumes and beneath the florets. <b>Glumes</b> to 1/3 the length of the florets, ovate, without veins, caducous or persistent, unawned; lower glumes highly reduced; calluses short, glabrous; lemmas 1-3-veined, not strongly keeled, apices acute to rounded, unawned; paleas subequal to the lemmas; lodicules 2, free, glabrous; anthers 1 or 2; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> exceeding the lemmas and exposed at maturity, x = 7.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Colo.;Alaska;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Wyo.;Mont. |discussion=<p><i>Phippsia</i> has two species, one of which is found in arctic Eurasia, Greenland, and the Canadian arctic islands; the other is circumpolar in the arctic, and is also known from the Rocky Mountains of North America and the high Andes of South America.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=aares2000a |text=Aares, E., M. Nurminiemi, and C. Brochmann. 2000. Incongruent phylogeographies in spite of similar morphology, ecology, and distribution: Phippsia algida and P. concinna (Poaceae) in the North Atlantic region. PI. Syst. Evol. 220:241-261 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=aiken1995d |text=Aiken, S.G., L.L. Consaul, and M.J. Dallwitz. 1995 on. Grasses of the Canadian arctic archipelago: Descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval, http://www.mun.ca/biology/delta/arcticf/poa/index.htm }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=bay1992a |text=Bay, C. 1992. A phytogeographical study of the vascular plants of northern Greenland—north of 74° northern latitude. Meddel. Granland, Biosci. 36:1-102 }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=steen2004a |text=Steen, N.W., R. Elven, and I. Nordal. 2004. Hybrid origin of the arctic ×Pucciphippsia vacillans (Poaceae): Evidence from Svalbard plants. Pi. Syst. Evol. 245:215-238. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Panicles (0.5)1-2(3) cm long, 3-7 mm wide; spikelet length less than twice the width; glumes caducous, often colorless when present; lemmas often yellow-green, purple coloration, when present, not reaching the apices, glabrous or with a few soft hairs on the lower 1/3, caryopses ellipsoid, widest at or just above the middle |[[Phippsia algida|Phippsia algida]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Panicles (1)3-9 cm long, (4)5-15 mm wide; spikelet length 2-3 times the width; glumes, particularly the upper glumes, not caducous, often still present on the previous season's growth, often with some deep purple coloration; lemmas usually purplish-red with a strong coloration over the veins, the color over the midvein extending to the apex, veins with stiff hairs, soft or stiff hairs elsewhere over the lower 1/2 - 2/3 of the surface; caryopses ovoid, widest below the middle |[[Phippsia concinna|Phippsia concinna]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Phippsia |author=Laurie L. Consaul; |authority=(Trin.) R. Br. |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Poaceae |illustrator=Cindy Roché |illustration copyright=Utah State University |distribution=Colo.;Alaska;Alta.;B.C.;Greenland;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.W.T.;Nunavut;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Wyo.;Mont. |reference=aares2000a;aiken1995d;bay1992a;steen2004a |publication title= |publication year= |special status= |source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V24/V24_687.xml |subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae |tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae |genus=Phippsia }}<!-- -->[[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 Phippsia.