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

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

Ekmanochloa aristata

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Cataphylls evident. Culms erect; 50 cm long. Culm-nodes swollen. Leaves cauline; differentiated into sheath and blade, or with blades commonly suppressed, transferring photosynthetic function to sheath and culm. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose. Ligule absent. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades linear, or lanceolate; 1–3.7 cm long; 1.5–4 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface ribbed; scaberulous; rough on both sides; pilose; densely hairy. Leaf-blade apex obtuse.

INFLORESCENCE Monoecious; with male and female spikelets in the same inflorescence. Inflorescence composed of racemes.

Racemes 2; paired; erect; unilateral; 3–4 cm long (male half as long). Rhachis angular.

Sexes segregated; on unisexual branches; with male conjugate. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Male spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels cuneate.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 8–9 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; subequal in width; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 8–9 mm long; 1.1 length of upper glume; herbaceous; without keels; 5 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins with cross-veins. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate; 6.5–8 mm long; 1.2 length of adjacent fertile lemma; herbaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins with cross-veins. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile florets female. Fertile lemma lanceolate; 6 mm long; coriaceous; without keel. Lemma margins flat. Lemma apex acuminate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn flexuous; 10–15 mm long overall. Palea coriaceous; 2 -veined.

MALE Male spikelets distinct from female; 1 flowered; persistent; lanceolate; 3–3.2 mm long; glabrous. Male spikelet glumes absent. Male spikelet lemma 3 -veined; muticous.

DISTRIBUTION South America: Caribbean.

NOTES Olyreae. TB.

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