Difference between revisions of "Spartina maritima"

(Curtis) Fernald
Common names: Small cordgrass
Synonyms: Spartina intermedia
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 246.
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Latest revision as of 17:30, 28 May 2021

Plants rhizomatous; rhizomes with scales not inflated, not imbricate. Culms to 80 cm, relatively soft, solitary or in small clumps. Sheaths mostly glabrous, throat sometimes sparingly pilose, lower sheaths often wrinkled; ligules 0.2-0.6 mm; blades 6-12 cm long, 5-8 mm wide, loosely involute, disarticulating from the sheaths, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely pilose, margins smooth. Panicles 4-14 cm, with (1)2-3(7) branches; branches 2-11 cm, alternate, loosely appressed, not twisted, lower and upper branches more or less equally imbricate, with 5-30 spikelets. Spikelets 10-15 mm. Glumes straight, mostly appressed pubescent, only the margins glabrous; lower glumes 7-10 mm, narrow, acuminate, obtuse, or rounded; upper glumes 10-15 mm, acuminate (rarely obtuse); lemmas mostly appressed pubescent, margins and basal portion of the keels glabrous, apices acuminate; anthers 3-6.5 mm, well-filled, dehiscent at maturity. 2n = 60.

Discussion

Spartina maritima is a European species that has been reported as growing in Mississippi (Kartesz and Meacham 1999); the record has not been verified for this treatment. It also grows in Africa, possibly as an introduction.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.