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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Bothriochloa longifolia
HABIT Perennial. Culms erect, or geniculately ascending; 30–60 cm long. Culm-nodes glabrous. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades 5–30 cm long; 2.5–5 mm wide.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes.
Racemes 3–8; digitate; 2.5–5 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; flattened; villous on margins. Rhachis internodes linear. Rhachis internode tip transverse.
Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 1 in the cluster. Pedicels linear; flattened; with a translucent median line (also present in internodes); villous.
STERILE SPIKELETS Companion sterile spikelets well-developed; containing empty lemmas, or male; elliptic; 3.8 mm long; as long as fertile. Companion sterile spikelet glumes without depressions; glabrous. Companion sterile spikelet lemmas enclosed by glumes.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 3.5–4.5 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures. Spikelet callus pilose; base obtuse; attached transversely.
GLUMES Glumes dissimilar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma; shiny. Lower glume elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; coriaceous; without keels; keel-less except near apex. Lower glume surface flat; pitted; glabrous. Upper glume lanceolate; 1-keeled.
FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret oblong; hyaline. Fertile lemma linear; 1.8 mm long; hyaline; without keel. Lemma apex entire; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn apical; geniculate; 15–20 mm long overall; with twisted column. Column of lemma awn glabrous. Palea absent or minute.
FLOWER Anthers 3.
DISTRIBUTION Asia-tropical: India.
NOTES Andropogoneae. WDC 1997.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.