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W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson

© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Andropogon longiberbis

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms 50–100 cm long. Lateral branches ample. Leaf-sheaths hirsute. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades 25–50 cm long; 3–7 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface scabrous; rough adaxially; hirsute; hairy abaxially.

INFLORESCENCE Synflorescence compound; paniculate. Inflorescence composed of racemes; terminal and axillary; subtended by a spatheole; enclosed. Spatheole lanceolate; 3–5 cm long; brown.

Racemes 2(–4); paired; 3–4 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; plumose on margins. Rhachis hairs 8–10 mm long. Rhachis internodes linear; 2 mm long. Rhachis internode tip transverse; cupuliform; with simple rim.

Spikelets ascending, or spreading; in pairs. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 1 in the cluster. Pedicels filiform; 4 mm long; plumose; with 8–10 mm long hairs.

STERILE SPIKELETS Companion sterile spikelets represented by barren pedicels, or represented by single glumes; linear; 0–1 mm long; shorter than fertile. Companion sterile spikelet glumes chartaceous; muticous.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 4–4.5 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures. Spikelet callus pubescent; base obtuse; inserted.

GLUMES Glumes dissimilar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 1 length of spikelet; cartilaginous; 2-keeled; keeled laterally. Lower glume primary vein ciliolate. Lower glume intercarinal veins absent. Lower glume surface concave. Upper glume lanceolate; membranous; 1-keeled. Upper glume muticous.

FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret oblong; hyaline. Fertile lemma lanceolate; hyaline; without keel. Lemma apex lobed; 2 -fid; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn from a sinus; straight; 12–16 mm long overall.

FLOWER Anthers 1.

DISTRIBUTION North America: southeast USA.

NOTES Andropogoneae. N Amer Fl 1994.

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