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 - Spikelets 1-flowered, in close or open panicles; glumes usually shorter thanthe lemma ; lemma firm-membranaceous, 3 to 5-nerved, with a very short, usually pilose callus, the apex acute, extending into a straight or flexuous awn or sometimes only mucronate.
Description - Spikelets 1-flowered, in close or open panicles; glumes usually shorter thanthe lemma ; lemma firm-membranaceous, 3 to 5-nerved, with a very short, usually pilose callus, the apex acute, extending into a straight or flexuous awn or sometimes only mucronate.