Tripogon

HABIT Annual (3), or perennial (43). Rhizomes absent (43), or short (2). Culms erect (39/40), or geniculately ascending (2/40); slender (3/3); 3–31.71–90 cm long; firm (43), or wiry (2); without nodal roots (1/1), or rooting from lower nodes (1/1). Lateral branches lacking (8/8). Ligule an eciliate membrane (8), or a ciliolate membrane (20), or a ciliate membrane (7), or a fringe of hairs (10), or absent (1). Leaf-blades persistent (44), or deciduous at the ligule (1); aciculate (1), or filiform (27), or linear (19), or lanceolate (1); herbaceous (44), or coriaceous (1); stiff (7), or firm (38). Leaf-blade midrib indistinct (2/3), or conspicuous (1/3). Leaf-blade apex muticous (44), or pungent (1).

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes; exserted, or embraced at base by subtending leaf (1).

Racemes single; erect (9), or ascending (34), or drooping (3); linear, or oblong (1); unilateral; bearing 7–9 fertile spikelets on each (1/5), or 10–14 fertile spikelets on each (2/5), or 15–24 fertile spikelets on each (3/5), or 25 fertile spikelets on each (4/5), or 26–35 fertile spikelets on each (3/5), or 36–48 fertile spikelets on each (2/5), or 49–60 fertile spikelets on each (1/5). Rhachis flattened (17/37), or angular (19/37), or subcylindrical and excavated (1/37). Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis; crowded (4), or contiguous (34), or lax (5), or distant (3); 2 -rowed (38/38).

Spikelets sunken (1/32), or appressed (28/32), or ascending (3/32); solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile (44), or pedicelled (2). Pedicels reduced to a stump (3/3).

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets (2/2); 2–9–50 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension (2), or with diminished florets at the apex (43). Spikelets linear (5), or lanceolate (4), or elliptic (6), or oblong (34), or cuneate (1); laterally compressed; 2.5–10.85–65 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes definite; glabrous (42), or pilose (1), or villous (2). Floret callus pubescent (16/37), or pilose (12/37), or bearded (9/37).

GLUMES Glumes persistent; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma (2), or similar to fertile lemma in texture (41), or firmer than fertile lemma (2); parallel to lemmas (44), or recurved at apex (1), or gaping (1). Lower glume linear (8), or lanceolate (37), or oblong (5), or ovate (3); 0.25–0.652–1 length of upper glume; membranous (44), or coriaceous (1); 1-keeled (44/44); 1 -veined (44/44). Lower glume lateral veins absent (44), or distinct (1). Lower glume surface smooth (44), or asperulous (1); without pits. Lower glume apex entire (31), or with a unilateral tooth (10), or dentate (4); 2 -fid (4/4); emarginate (1/40), or truncate (1/40), or obtuse (6/40), or acute (18/40), or acuminate (23/40), or attenuate (1/40), or setaceously attenuate (1/40); muticous (40), or mucronate (5), or awned (3). Upper glume linear (3), or lanceolate (33), or elliptic (5), or oblong (12); 0.75–1.198–2 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous (41/44), or coriaceous (3/44); with undifferentiated margins (42), or membranous margins (1), or scarious margins (2); 1-keeled (44/44); 1 -veined (38/42), or 2 -veined (2/42), or 3 -veined (6/42). Upper glume apex entire (39), or dentate (7); 2 -fid (7/7); emarginate (7/38), or truncate (2/38), or obtuse (5/38), or acute (15/38), or acuminate (17/38), or setaceously attenuate (1/38), or caudate (1/38); muticous (29), or mucronate (13), or awned (7); 1 -awned (7/7).

FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren (2/2); without significant palea (2/2). Lemma of lower sterile floret elliptic (1/2), or ovate (1/2); membranous (2/2); 1 -veined (2/2); acute (2/2); mucronate (1/2), or awned (1/2). Fertile lemma linear (1), or lanceolate (13), or elliptic (13), or oblong (19), or ovate (9), or oblanceolate (1); membranous (39), or chartaceous (1), or cartilaginous (1), or coriaceous (4); of similar consistency on margins (44), or much thinner on margins (1); without keel (42), or keeled (3); wingless; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein without distinctive roughness, or scaberulous (1). Lemma lateral veins prominent (2/2); excurrent (11/22), or extending close to apex (12/22). Lemma surface smooth (43), or asperulous (1), or scaberulous (1); unwrinkled; without grooves; glabrous (44), or hirsute (1). Lemma apex entire (5), or dentate (33), or lobed (9); 2 -fid (35/42), or 3 -fid (3/42), or 4 -fid (4/42), or 6 -fid (2/42); incised 0.33 of lemma length; emarginate (3/15), or truncate (3/15), or obtuse (8/15), or acute (3/15), or acuminate (3/15); mucronate (6), or awned (42); 1 -awned (26/42), or 3 -awned (17/42). Principal lemma awn apical (5), or from a sinus (41); straight (40), or curved (1), or flexuous (5), or geniculate (1). Lateral lemma awns subequal to principal (3/8), or shorter than principal (5/8). Palea embraced by lemma (44), or reflexed at apex (1), or separating from lemma above (1); 0.33–0.9198–1 length of lemma; 2 -veined (44/44). Palea keels wingless (23), or winged (22); smooth (39), or scaberulous (5), or scabrous (2); eciliate (16), or ciliolate (26), or ciliate (3). Palea surface glabrous (43), or pilose (2). Palea apex dentate (3/3); muticous (44), or with excurrent keel veins (1). Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped (43/43).

FLOWER Lodicules 2 (8/8); irregularly toothed (1/1); truncate (1/1). Anthers 1 (2/40), or 2 (6/40), or 3 (32/40). Stigmas 2 (1/1).

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp (43/43); linear (1/13), or lanceolate (4/13), or ellipsoid (4/13), or oblong (5/13), or ovoid (2/13), or obovoid (1/13); isodiametric (7/7); biconvex (2/8), or plano-convex (1/8), or trigonous (5/8). Embryo 0.25–0.3883–0.5 length of caryopsis. Hilum punctiform (1/2), or elliptic (1/2).

DISTRIBUTION Africa (9), or Temperate Asia (18), or Tropical Asia (26), or Australasia (1), or North America (1), or South America (3).

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