Difference between revisions of "Hilaria swallenii"

Cory
Common names: Swallen's curly mesquite
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 278.
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Latest revision as of 18:59, 11 May 2021

Plants perennial; stoloniferous. Culms 10-35 cm, erect; nodes villous. Sheaths slightly scabrous; ligules 2-2.2 mm; blades to 8 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, mostly basal, both surfaces scabrous, sometimes also sparsely pilose. Panicles 1-4 cm, with 2-8 fascicles; fascicles 6.5-8 mm. Lateral spikelets with 2 florets, lowest florets usually sterile, distal florets staminate; glumes unequal, thick, indurate, and conspicuously fused basally, mostly gray to dark brown, evenly and sparsely to densely spotted with dark glands, awned from above midlength, margins hyaline; anthers 3, 3-3.5 mm. Central spikelets with 1 pistillate floret; lemmas elliptic basally, narrower and parallel-sided distally. 2n = 54, 72.

Discussion

Hilaria swallenii grows on dry plains and rocky mesas in New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico. It is considered better forage than H. belangeri, but it is less important because it is less common.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

None.