Monographs Details:
Authority:
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Acevedo-RodrÃguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
Family:
Poaceae
Poaceae
Description:
Species Description - Cespitose annual herb; culms erect, 20-90 cm tall. Leaf ligules 0.4 – 0.7 mm long; blades 9-25 x 0.2 – 0.5 cm, glabrous, sparingly pilose on the upper surface near base. Inflorescences subdigitate with 7-15 racemes, each 3-8 cm long. Spikelets 3(-4) flowered, densely imbricate, often purplish; glumes 1 or 2, 7mm long, linear to oblanceolate, the apex mucronate; lower sterile floret lemma 0.9-1.3 mm long, broadest at the apex, narrowly turbinate, the apex truncate, the awn 5-7 mm long; bisexual floret lemma 2-2.8 mm long, elliptical, bearing a callus with a tuft of hairs, the margins with ascending hairs, the awn 4-8 mm long, straight; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long; uppermost sterile floret inflated, spherical; Caryopsis 1.1-1.4 mm long, ellipsoid to obovoid.
Species Description - Cespitose annual herb; culms erect, 20-90 cm tall. Leaf ligules 0.4 – 0.7 mm long; blades 9-25 x 0.2 – 0.5 cm, glabrous, sparingly pilose on the upper surface near base. Inflorescences subdigitate with 7-15 racemes, each 3-8 cm long. Spikelets 3(-4) flowered, densely imbricate, often purplish; glumes 1 or 2, 7mm long, linear to oblanceolate, the apex mucronate; lower sterile floret lemma 0.9-1.3 mm long, broadest at the apex, narrowly turbinate, the apex truncate, the awn 5-7 mm long; bisexual floret lemma 2-2.8 mm long, elliptical, bearing a callus with a tuft of hairs, the margins with ascending hairs, the awn 4-8 mm long, straight; anthers 0.5-0.7 mm long; uppermost sterile floret inflated, spherical; Caryopsis 1.1-1.4 mm long, ellipsoid to obovoid.
Discussion:
Chloris inflata Link, E n u m . Hort. Berol. Alt. 1: 105 1821
paraguaiensis Steud., Syn. PL Glumac. 204. 1854
Distribution:
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America|
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Thomas Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America|