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

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

Pariana tenuis

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms erect; 25–30 cm long. Leaves cauline. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.1 cm long; petiole glabrous. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 7–12 cm long; 30–50 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface smooth, or scaberulous; rough abaxially. Leaf-blade apex acute.

INFLORESCENCE Monoecious; with male and female spikelets in the same inflorescence. Synflorescence on a separate leafless culm. Inflorescence composed of racemes.

Racemes 1; single; erect; multilateral; 3.5 cm long; 5–6 mm wide. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; terminating in a sterile spikelet. Rhachis internodes linear.

Sexes mixed (in a cluster at each node). Spikelets subtended by an involucre. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Male spikelets pedicelled; 5 in a cluster. Involucre composed of imperfect spikelets; with pedicels forming a cup; oblong. Pedicels fused to each other; united along margins; oblong; flattened; 3 mm long; pubescent; tip rectangular.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets ovate; laterally compressed; compressed slightly; 4 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.

GLUMES Glumes similar; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 4 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; chartaceous; 1-keeled. Lower glume margins ciliate. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume ovate; 4 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; 1-keeled. Upper glume margins ciliate. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile florets female. Fertile lemma ovate; 4 mm long; coriaceous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma apex acute; pubescent. Palea coriaceous; without keels.

FLOWER Lodicules 3. Anthers 6. Stigmas 2.

MALE Male spikelets distinct from female; 1 flowered; deciduous with the fertile; ovate; 3 mm long; hairy. Male spikelet glumes 2; linear; 2.5–3 mm long. Male spikelet lemma 3 mm long; 1 -veined.

DISTRIBUTION South America: Brazil.

NOTES Parianeae. Tutin 1995.

Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.