Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
Family:
Poaceae
Poaceae
Description:
Description - Monoecious herbs, perennial, caespitose; culms erect or creeping or climbing. Leaves with well developed auricles; ligules membranaceous; blade broad. Inflorescences paniculate, solitary or numerous at the upper nodes of the stem. Spikelets with a single (lower; pistillate spikelets usually with a claviform pedicel, separating as a unit or the flowers separating from the glumes, the glumes acuminate or arislate, membranaceous, pluriveined, longer than the flower; flowers lanceolate or ovate, whitish, persistent; spikelets staminate, smaller than the pistillate ones, linear or lanceolate, hyaline, deciduous, the glumes usually absent; stamens 3.
Description - Monoecious herbs, perennial, caespitose; culms erect or creeping or climbing. Leaves with well developed auricles; ligules membranaceous; blade broad. Inflorescences paniculate, solitary or numerous at the upper nodes of the stem. Spikelets with a single (lower; pistillate spikelets usually with a claviform pedicel, separating as a unit or the flowers separating from the glumes, the glumes acuminate or arislate, membranaceous, pluriveined, longer than the flower; flowers lanceolate or ovate, whitish, persistent; spikelets staminate, smaller than the pistillate ones, linear or lanceolate, hyaline, deciduous, the glumes usually absent; stamens 3.