Garnotia cheesemanii

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms slender; 30–45 cm long. Culm-nodes glabrous, or pubescent. Leaf-sheath oral hairs lacking, or pubescent. Ligule an eciliate membrane, or a ciliolate membrane; 1–1.5 mm long; erose, or lacerate. Leaf-blades filiform; conduplicate, or involute; 10–18 cm long; 1–3.5 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle contracted; linear; 9–15 cm long. Primary panicle branches appressed; bearing spikelets almost to the base.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 3–3.5 mm long; falling entire. Spikelet callus glabrous, or pubescent; base obtuse.

GLUMES Glumes similar; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 3–3.5 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Lower glume surface scabrous; rough on veins. Lower glume apex acute, or acuminate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Lower glume awn 0–7 mm long. Upper glume lanceolate; 3–3.5 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume surface scabrous; rough on veins. Upper glume apex acute, or acuminate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Upper glume awn 0–4 mm long.

FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong; 3–3.5 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma surface scaberulous; rough above. Lemma margins involute; interlocking with palea keels. Lemma apex acuminate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn flexuous; with thread-like crinkled tip; 7–12 mm long overall. Palea with auriculate flaps; 1 length of lemma; cartilaginous; 2 -veined. Palea keels winged (below); narrowly winged.

FLOWER Lodicules 2; cuneate; fleshy.

DISTRIBUTION Pacific: south-central.

NOTES Arundinelleae. Gould.

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