Chloris

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Chloris

• Description

  Genus Description - Rhizomatous, stoloniferous, or cespitose annual or perennial herbs; culms erect to decumbent. Leaf ligules membranous, ciliate, or occasionally absent; blades usually linear, flat or folded. Inflorescence a digitate or subdigitate cluster of several to many, or occasionally 1, spikelike racemes. Spikelets borne in 2 staggered rows on one side of the rachis, sessile to subsessile, several-flowered with only a single bisexual floret; glumes usually 1-nerved; upper glumes 1-4-nerved, shorter than the florets; lower floret usually bisexual; upper florets usually sterile and reduced, rarely staminate or bisexual; lemma of bisexual florets lanceolate, 3-nerved, with hairy margins, the base bearded, the apex usually awned and minutely bifid; palea shorter than the lemma, glabrous; stamens 3. Caryopsis mostly ovoid to obovoid or ellipsoid.