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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Crypsis schoenoides
HABIT Annual. Culms decumbent; 1–30 cm long. Lateral branches ample. Leaf-sheaths outer margin glabrous. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Collar glabrous. Leaf-blades deciduous at the ligule; 0.5–12 cm long; 1–5 mm wide; stiff; glaucous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle; subtended by an inflated leaf-sheath, or a spatheole; embraced at base by subtending leaf.
Panicle capitate; elliptic, or oblong; 0.5–3 cm long. Primary panicle branches accrescent to a central axis; with lateral stumps on axis.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 2.5–4 mm long; falling entire.
GLUMES Glumes similar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; 2.5–4 mm long; 0.9 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume primary vein eciliate. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume margins eciliate. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 2.5–4 mm long; 0.9 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume primary vein eciliate. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume margins eciliate. Upper glume apex acute.
FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; laterally compressed; 2.5–4 mm long; membranous; keeled; 1 -veined. Lemma apex acute. Palea 2 -veined.
FLOWER Lodicules absent. Anthers 3; 0.9 mm long.
FRUIT Caryopsis with free soft pericarp; ellipsoid to obovoid; 1.5 mm long; apex unappendaged.
DISTRIBUTION Europe: northern, central, southwestern, southeastern, and eastern. Africa: north, west tropical, southern tropical, south, and western Indian ocean. Asia-temperate: Siberia, Soviet Middle Asia, Caucasus, western Asia, Arabia, China, and Mongolia. Asia-tropical: India. Australasia: Australia. North America: north-central USA, northeast USA, southwest USA, southeast USA, and Mexico.
NOTES Eragrostideae. FTEA.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.
