Enneapogon

HABIT Annual (8), or perennial (23). Rhizomes absent (21), or short (3). Culms erect (3/5), or geniculately ascending (3/5), or decumbent (2/5); slender (1/1); 3–39.85–107 cm long; firm (18), or wiry (6). Culm-internodes channelled (1/1). Lateral branches lacking (6/15), or sparse (9/15), or ample (6/15). Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades persistent (23), or deciduous at the ligule (1); filiform (4), or linear (20); stiff (3), or firm (21).

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle; terminal, or terminal and axillary (1).

Panicle open (1), or contracted (7), or spiciform (17), or capitate (2).

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets (22), or 2 fertile florets (3), or 3 fertile florets (1); with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 2–5.41–13.6 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret (23), or above glumes but not between florets (1). Rhachilla internodes definite (3/3). Floret callus pubescent (1/2), or pilose (1/2).

GLUMES Glumes persistent; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate (3), or elliptic (2), or ovate (21); 0.6–0.887–1 length of upper glume; membranous; without keels; 3–8–23 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins without ribs (22), or ribbed (2). Lower glume surface smooth (22), or asperulous (2), or scabrous (1); without pits; glabrous (8), or pubescent (14), or pilose (11). Lower glume apex entire (20), or erose (9), or dentate (1); 2 -fid (1/1); emarginate (1), or truncate (7), or obtuse (10), or acute (15), or acuminate (6); muticous (21), or mucronate (9). Upper glume lanceolate (2), or elliptic (3), or oblong (1), or ovate (19); 1.2–2.202–4 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; without keels; 3–7–23 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins without ribs (22), or ribbed (2). Upper glume surface smooth (23), or asperulous (1), or scabrous (1); glabrous (8), or pubescent (14), or pilose (11); with simple hairs (16/20), or tubercle-based hairs (1/20), or capitate hairs (8/20). Upper glume apex entire (20), or erose (9), or dentate (1); 2 -fid (1/1); emarginate (2/23), or truncate (6/23), or obtuse (10/23), or acute (14/23), or acuminate (6/23); muticous (23), or mucronate (7).

FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong (13), or orbicular (7), or oblate (4); membranous (6), or chartaceous (8), or cartilaginous (11), or coriaceous (7); of similar consistency above (21), or firmer above (3); of similar consistency on margins (22), or much thinner on margins (3); without keel; wingless; 9 -veined, or 10–11 -veined (8). Lemma lateral veins obscure (4/4); without ribs (18), or ribbed (11). Lemma surface unwrinkled; without grooves; pubescent (4), or pilose (13), or villous (7); without hair tufts (23), or with a transverse row of hair tufts (1). Lemma margins eciliate (14), or ciliolate (2), or ciliate (13). Lemma apex dentate; 9 -fid; awned; 9 -awned. Principal lemma awn 0.8–1.804–3 length of lemma; limb glabrous (1), or ciliate (11), or plumose (12). Lateral lemma awns subequal to principal. Palea 1–1.125–1.4 length of lemma; membranous (22), or cartilaginous (2). Palea keels smooth (22), or scaberulous (2); eciliate (2), or ciliolate (14), or ciliate (9). Palea surface glabrous (8), or pubescent (15), or pilose (3). Palea apex dentate (1/1); muticous (22), or with excurrent keel veins (1), or awned (4). Apical sterile florets 1 in number (3), or 2 in number (16), or 3 in number (11), or 4 in number (7), or 5 in number (2); barren; separate (15), or in a clump (9); rudimentary (7/8), or oblong (1/8). Apical sterile lemmas awned. Apical sterile lemma awns glabrous (1), or ciliate (23).

FLOWER Lodicules 2. Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid (15/16), or oblong (3/16), or orbicular (1/16), or obovoid (13/16); plano-convex (7/15), or concavo-convex (9/15). Embryo 0.75–0.8–0.9 length of caryopsis. Hilum punctiform (21/21).

CLEISTOGENES AND VIVIPARY Cleistogenes absent (21), or present (4); in upper sheaths (2/4), or in lower sheaths (3/4).

DISTRIBUTION Europe (1), or Africa (8), or Temperate Asia (6), or Tropical Asia (4), or Australasia (16), or North America (1), or South America (1).

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