Poa takasagomontana

HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped densely. Culms slender; 40–50 cm long; 0.3–0.5 mm diam. Culm-internodes terete. Lateral branches lacking. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1–1.5 mm long; acuminate. Leaf-blades 10–15 cm long; 1–1.5 mm wide.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; ovate; 10 cm long.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1–4 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 3.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes smooth. Floret callus woolly.

GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; 1.5 mm long; 0.5 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 3 mm long; 0.9 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma ovate; 3.5 mm long; membranous; much thinner on margins; keeled; 5 -veined. Lemma surface glabrous. Lemma apex acute. Palea 3 mm long. Palea keels scabrous. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.

FLOWER Lodicules 2; membranous. Anthers 3; 1 mm long.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; 1.5 mm long. Hilum punctiform.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-temperate: eastern Asia.

NOTES Poeae. Taiwan Gr 1997.

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