Garnotia ciliata

HABIT Annual; caespitose. Culms geniculately ascending, or decumbent; 20–70 cm long; without nodal roots, or rooting from lower nodes. Culm-nodes bearded. Leaf-sheaths hispid; with tubercle-based hairs. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.5 mm long. Leaf-blades flat, or conduplicate; 5–12 cm long; 5–8 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface hispid; hairy on both sides; with tubercle-based hairs.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle contracted; linear; 10–20 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; 4.5–6 mm long; falling entire. Spikelet callus glabrous, or pubescent; base obtuse.

GLUMES Glumes similar; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 4.5–6 mm long; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Lower glume surface pilose. Lower glume apex acute, or acuminate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Lower glume awn 0–2 mm long. Upper glume lanceolate; 4.5–6 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume surface pilose. Upper glume apex acute, or acuminate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Upper glume awn 0–2 mm long.

FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong; 4.5–6 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma margins involute; interlocking with palea keels. Lemma apex lobed; 2 -fid; with lobes 0.4–0.6 mm long; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn from a sinus; geniculate; 7–10 mm long overall; with twisted column. Palea with auriculate flaps; 1 length of lemma; cartilaginous; 2 -veined. Palea keels winged (below); narrowly winged.

FLOWER Lodicules 2; cuneate; fleshy.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: China. Asia-tropical: Indo-China.

NOTES Arundinelleae. Gould.

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