Difference between revisions of "Leptochloa fusca subsp. uninervia"

(J. Presl) N. Snow
Common names: Mexican sprangletop
Synonyms: Leptochloa uninervia
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 56.
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Latest revision as of 17:59, 11 May 2021

Culms (15)25-110 cm, more or less erect, often branch¬ing from the aerial nodes. Blades usually densely scabrous on both surfaces, not exceeding the panicle. Panicles 10-57 cm long, (0.5)3-18 cm wide, often ellipsoidal, usually completely exserted from the upper¬most leaf sheaths; branches 2-11 cm, mostly ascending. Spikelets 5-10 mm. Lower glumes 1-2.6 mm, narrowly triangular to ovate; upper glumes 1.8-2.8 mm, obovate to widely obovate; lemmas 2-3.6 mm, light brown, dark green, or lead-colored, usually without a basal dark spot, apices usually truncate or obtuse, rarely broadly acute, sometimes bifid, sometimes mucronate; anthers 3, 0.2-0.6(1) mm. Caryopses 1-1.5 mm.

Discussion

Leptochloa fusca subsp. uninervia is native from the southern United States to Argentina. It may be confused with L. scabra, from which it usually differs in its truncate or obtuse lemmas.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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