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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Garnotia elata
HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped densely. Butt sheaths glabrous, or woolly. Culms erect; robust; 50–150 cm long. Leaves without demarcation between sheath and blade. Leaf-sheaths without keel, or keeled; outer margin hairy. Leaf-sheath oral hairs lacking, or ciliate. Ligule a ciliate membrane. Leaf-blades conduplicate, or involute; 20–60 cm long; 2–4 mm wide.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.
Panicle contracted; linear, or lanceolate; 25–90 cm long. Primary panicle branches appressed; bearing spikelets almost to the base. Panicle branches stiff.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 4–7 mm long; falling entire. Spikelet callus pilose; base obtuse. Spikelet callus hairs 0.5–1 mm long.
GLUMES Glumes similar; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 4–7 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Lower glume apex acute to setaceously attenuate. Upper glume lanceolate; 4–7 mm long; 2 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute to setaceously attenuate.
FLORETS Fertile lemma oblong; 2–4 mm long; cartilaginous; dark green, or dark brown; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma margins involute; interlocking with palea keels. Lemma apex dentate; 2 -fid; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn from a sinus; geniculate; 5–8 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-tropical: India.
NOTES Arundinelleae. Gould.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.