Garnotia villosa

HABIT Perennial. Culms geniculately ascending; 45–60 cm long; 5–10 -noded. Culm-nodes glabrous. Leaf-sheaths hirsute. Leaf-sheath oral hairs bearded. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades lanceolate; tapering towards tip; 10–16 cm long; 5–10 mm wide. Leaf-blade margins ciliate.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle contracted; linear; 15–25 cm long. Primary panicle branches appressed; 4–8 cm long; bearing spikelets almost to the base.

Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels unequal; 1–6 mm long.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 3.5–4 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; 3.5–4 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Lower glume surface asperulous. Lower glume apex acute, or acuminate; muticous, or mucronate. Upper glume lanceolate; 3.5–4 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute, or acuminate; muticous, or mucronate.

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; 3.5–4 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma margins involute; interlocking with palea keels. Lemma apex acuminate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn straight, or curved; 0–5.5 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: southwestern.

NOTES Arundinelleae. Gould.

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