Difference between revisions of "Digitaria simpsonii"

(Vasey) Fernald
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 374.
FNA>Volume Importer
imported>Volume Importer
 
(5 intermediate revisions by 2 users not shown)
Line 3: Line 3:
 
|accepted_authority=(Vasey) Fernald
 
|accepted_authority=(Vasey) Fernald
 
|publications=
 
|publications=
 +
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
 +
|code=E
 +
|label=Endemic
 +
}}
 
|basionyms=
 
|basionyms=
 
|synonyms=
 
|synonyms=
Line 25: Line 29:
 
-->{{#Taxon:
 
-->{{#Taxon:
 
name=Digitaria simpsonii
 
name=Digitaria simpsonii
|author=
 
 
|authority=(Vasey) Fernald
 
|authority=(Vasey) Fernald
 
|rank=species
 
|rank=species
Line 32: Line 35:
 
|basionyms=
 
|basionyms=
 
|family=Poaceae
 
|family=Poaceae
 +
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
 +
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
 
|distribution=Fla.
 
|distribution=Fla.
 
|reference=None
 
|reference=None
 
|publication title=
 
|publication title=
 
|publication year=
 
|publication year=
|special status=
+
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1075.xml
+
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/200273ad09963decb8fc72550212de541d86569d/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1075.xml
 
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
 
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
 
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
 
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae

Latest revision as of 17:55, 11 May 2021

Plants of indefinite duration; not rhizomatous. Culms 80-120 cm, erect or decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes, not branching at the aerial nodes. Sheaths hirsute, with papillose-based hairs, those of the innovation sheaths compressed-keeled; ligules 1-2 mm; blades 7-30 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, flat, pilose above and below. Panicles with 6-8 spikelike primary branches on 4-6 cm rachises; primary branches 8-13 cm, axes triquetrous, narrowly winged, wings less than 1/2 as wide as the midribs, lower and middle portions of the branches bearing spikelets in appressed, unequally pedicellate pairs; secondary branches rarely present; axillary inflorescences not present; pedicels not adnate to the branch axes. Spikelets about 3 mm, elliptic lanceolate, acute. Lower glumes absent or minute and hyaline; upper glumes 7-9-veined, glabrous or obscurely pubescent; lower lemmas 7-9-veined, glabrous or obscurely pubescent; upper lemmas elliptic, yellow or gray, becoming purple at maturity, slightly apiculate. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Digitaria simpsonii is a rare species, known only from sandy fields in Florida.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.