Enteropogon

HABIT Annual (2), or perennial (16). Culms erect (5/7), or geniculately ascending (4/7); 20–63.75–100 cm long; firm (13), or wiry (5); without nodal roots (2/2), or rooting from lower nodes (2/2). Lateral branches lacking (3/7), or sparse (1/7), or ample (3/7), or fastigiate (1/7). Ligule an eciliate membrane (1), or a ciliolate membrane (10), or a ciliate membrane (3), or a fringe of hairs (5). Leaf-blades filiform (5), or linear (14).

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes.

Racemes single (8), or paired (3), or digitate (11), or borne along a central axis (1); erect (2), or ascending (15), or spreading (1), or radiating (1), or drooping (1); unilateral. Rhachis angular. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis; contiguous (13), or lax (5); 2 -rowed (10/10).

Spikelets appressed (16), or ascending (2); solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate (8), or elliptic (9), or cuneate (1); laterally compressed (8), or dorsally compressed (10); 2.5–5.697–11 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus brief (4), or evident (14); glabrous (2), or pubescent (5), or pilose (8), or bearded (3); obtuse (15), or acute (1), or pungent (2).

GLUMES Glumes persistent; shorter than spikelet (14), or reaching apex of florets (5), or exceeding apex of florets (2); thinner than fertile lemma; gaping. Lower glume subulate (1), or linear (3), or lanceolate (14); 0.15–0.5011–1 length of upper glume; hyaline (3/17), or membranous (14/17); without keels (17/17); 1 -veined (17/17). Lower glume lateral veins absent (17), or distinct (1). Lower glume surface without pits. Lower glume apex acuminate (15/17), or setaceously attenuate (2/17); muticous (16/17), or mucronate (1/17). Upper glume linear (4), or lanceolate (14); 0.5–0.8267–1.3 length of adjacent fertile lemma; hyaline (3), or membranous (15); without keels; 1 -veined. Upper glume apex entire (13), or dentate (5); 2 -fid (5/5); acuminate (8/10), or setaceously attenuate (2/10); muticous (11), or mucronate (2), or awned (5); 1 -awned (5/5).

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate (6), or elliptic (12), or oblong (1); dorsally compressed; cartilaginous (3), or coriaceous (15); keeled; wingless; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein without distinctive roughness (17), or scaberulous (1). Lemma lateral veins excurrent (2/2). Lemma surface smooth (7), or granulose (1), or scaberulous (10), or scabrous (1); unwrinkled; without grooves; glabrous, or puberulous (1), or pubescent (1), or pilose (1). Lemma margins eciliate (15), or ciliolate (1), or ciliate (2). Lemma apex entire (7), or dentate (11); 2 -fid (11/11); acute (3/6), or acuminate (3/6); awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn apical (7), or subapical (1), or from a sinus (10); straight (15), or flexuous (3). Palea 0.75 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Palea keels unthickened (16), or thickened (2); smooth (15), or scaberulous (2), or tuberculate (1). Apical sterile florets 1 in number (14), or 2 in number (11), or 3–5 in number (1); barren (2/2); separate (16), or in a clump (2); linear (9), or lanceolate (9), or elliptic (1), or oblong (1). Apical sterile lemmas muticous (2), or awned (16).

FLOWER Anthers 3 (3/3).

FRUIT Caryopsis with free soft pericarp (10/10); linear (1/12), or ellipsoid (11/12); flattened; concavo-convex. Embryo 0.4 length of caryopsis.

CLEISTOGENES AND VIVIPARY Cleistogenes absent (17), or present (2); underground (1/1).

DISTRIBUTION Europe (1), or Africa (7), or Temperate Asia (4), or Tropical Asia (3), or Australasia (6), or Pacific (2), or North America (2), or South America (4).

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