Monographs Details:
Authority:
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Family:
Poaceae
Poaceae
Description:
Description - Inflorescence of 1 to many racemes, these racemes along a common axis; spikelets plano-convex (in a few species unequally biconvex, or concavo-convex), subsessile along a slender or winged rachis, the back of the fruit turned toward it; first glume typically wanting, developed in a few species; fertile lemma and palea chartaceous-indurate (thin in P. saccharides).
Description - Inflorescence of 1 to many racemes, these racemes along a common axis; spikelets plano-convex (in a few species unequally biconvex, or concavo-convex), subsessile along a slender or winged rachis, the back of the fruit turned toward it; first glume typically wanting, developed in a few species; fertile lemma and palea chartaceous-indurate (thin in P. saccharides).