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Soderstr.
Common names: Small lithachne
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 30.
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|discussion=<p>Lithachne humilis is endemic to Honduras. It is sold as an ornamental in the United States. Soderstrom (1980) postulated that the flap below the pistillate spikelet is a vestige of a staminate spikelet; the wide-ranging L. pauciflora (Sw.) P. Beauv. has 1-5 staminate spikelets below each of the pistillate spikelets, while the narrow endemics L. pineti (C. Wright ex Griseb.) Chase and L. horizontalis Chase (from eastern Brazil and eastern Cuba, respectively) have no staminate spikelets and no flap of tissue beneath the pistillate spikelets.</p>
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|discussion=<p><i>Lithachne humilis</i> is endemic to Honduras. It is sold as an ornamental in the United States. Soderstrom (1980) postulated that the flap below the pistillate spikelet is a vestige of a staminate spikelet; the wide-ranging <i>L. pauciflora</i> (Sw.) P. Beauv. has 1-5 staminate spikelets below each of the pistillate spikelets, while the narrow endemics L. pineti (C. Wright ex Griseb.) Chase and L. horizontalis Chase (from eastern Brazil and eastern Cuba, respectively) have no staminate spikelets and no flap of tissue beneath the pistillate spikelets.</p>
 
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Illustrator: Cindy Roché

Copyright: Utah State University

Culms 15-27 cm, erect; nodes 5-6, glabrous, with prominent infra- and supranodal ridges. Foliage leaves: sheaths glabrous or puberulent, hairs to 0.2 mm; pseudopetioles 0.7-1 mm; ligules about 0.2 mm, petiolar region sparsely pilose abaxially, hirsute adaxially; blades 2-6 cm long, 0.4-1 cm wide, bases asymmetric, midveins thickened near the base, both surfaces hairy, abaxial surfaces more densely hairy, hairs about 0.2 mm. Pistillate racemes exserted from the lower leaf sheaths, with 1 spikelet; rachis 8-10 mm, with a thin, rudimentary flap of tissue below the pistillate spikelet. Pistillate spikelets 7.3-9.5 mm, triangular in side view, gibbous; glumes glabrous; lower glumes 5.9-9.5 mm, 7-9-veined; upper glumes 5-7.5 mm, 5-7-veined; florets subtended by a persistent rachilla internode of about 1 mm; lemmas 2.8-3.5 mm, white, glabrous, indurate; paleas slightly shorter than the lemmas, 2-veined, veins inconspicuous; lodicules 3; ovaries with 1 style and 2 plumose style branches. Staminate racemes 1-4, exserted terminally, extending about 2 cm beyond the subtending leaf sheath, with 1-2 pairs of unequally pedicellate spikelets, an upper short-pedicellate spikelet and a terminal spikelet. Staminate spikelets 4.2-7.5 mm; glumes absent; lemmas membranous, 3-veined, glabrous; paleas 2-veined; lodicules 3; anthers 3, 3.5-5.4 mm, yellow, almost basifixed. Caryopses brown, gibbous; hila linear. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Lithachne humilis is endemic to Honduras. It is sold as an ornamental in the United States. Soderstrom (1980) postulated that the flap below the pistillate spikelet is a vestige of a staminate spikelet; the wide-ranging L. pauciflora (Sw.) P. Beauv. has 1-5 staminate spikelets below each of the pistillate spikelets, while the narrow endemics L. pineti (C. Wright ex Griseb.) Chase and L. horizontalis Chase (from eastern Brazil and eastern Cuba, respectively) have no staminate spikelets and no flap of tissue beneath the pistillate spikelets.

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Lower Taxa

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