Axonopus paschalis

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms erect; 30–80(–100) cm long. Ligule a ciliolate membrane; 0.3–0.7 mm long. Leaf-blades flat, or conduplicate; 15–30 cm long; 0.5–0.8 mm wide.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes.

Racemes 3–6; digitate; unilateral; 7–14 cm long. Rhachis angular; glabrous on surface; glabrous on margins. Spikelet packing adaxial.

Spikelets appressed; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets ovate; dorsally compressed; 2.5–3 mm long; falling entire.

GLUMES Glumes one the lower absent or obscure; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Upper glume ovate; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels.

FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret similar to upper glume; ovate; 1 length of spikelet. Fertile lemma elliptic; 2.5–3 mm long; indurate; without keel. Lemma margins involute. Palea involute; indurate.

FLOWER Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.

DISTRIBUTION Pacific: south-central.

NOTES Paniceae. Zizka 1994.

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