Difference between revisions of "Sporobolus junceus"

(P. Beauv.) Kunth
Common names: Piney woods dropseed
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Revision as of 17:33, 18 September 2019

Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms (30)40-100 cm. Sheaths rounded below, margins and apices sometimes sparsely ciliate; ligules 0.1-0.2 mm; blades (6)10-30 cm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, flat to tightly involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, margins scabrous, apices pungent. Panicles 7-28 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, open, pyramidal; lower nodes with 3 or more branches; primary branches 0.7-4.5 cm, spreading 20-100° from the rachis, whorled or verticellate, without spikelets on the lower 1/8–1/2; secondary branches appressed; pedicels 0.4-2.5 mm, appressed, scabridulous. Spikelets 2.6-3.8 mm, purplish-red. Glumes unequal, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate or ovate, hyaline to membranous; lower glumes 0.9-3 mm; upper glumes 2.6-3.8 mm, as long as or longer than the florets; lemmas 2-3.6 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous, acute; paleas 2-3.6 mm, ovate, membranous; anthers 1.4-2 mm, purplish. Fruits 1.4-1.8 mm, ellipsoid, somewhat laterally flattened, somewhat rugulose, reddish-brown. 2n = unknown.

Distribution

Va., Okla., Miss., Tex., La., Ala., Tenn., N.C., S.C., Ark., Ga., Ariz., Fla.

Discussion

Sporobolus junceus grows in openings in pine and hardwood forests, coastal prairies, and pine barrens, usually in sandy to loamy soils, at 2-400 m. Its range lies entirely within the southern United States.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Sporobolus junceus"
Paul M. Peterson +, Stephan L. Hatch +  and Alan S. Weakley +
(P. Beauv.) Kunth +
Piney woods dropseed +
Va. +, Okla. +, Miss. +, Tex. +, La. +, Ala. +, Tenn. +, N.C. +, S.C. +, Ark. +, Ga. +, Ariz. +  and Fla. +
Gramineae +
Sporobolus junceus +
Sporobolus +
species +