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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Sesleria korabensis
HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms erect; 15–30 cm long. Lateral branches lacking. Leaf-sheaths tubular for much of their length; hirsute. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.2–0.4 mm long. Leaf-blades flat, or convolute; 10–25 cm long; 2–3 mm wide; 1–1.5 cm long at summit of culm; without exudate, or pruinose. Leaf-blade venation without layer of subepidermal sclerenchyma masking vein striation, or with continuous uniform subepidermal sclerenchyma layer on the underside. Leaf-blade surface pilose. Leaf-blade margins ciliate.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle. Peduncle tipped by a glumaceous appendage (treated as sterile spikelets).
Panicle capitate; ovate; 1–1.5 cm long; 0.8–1 cm wide. Primary panicle branches accrescent to a central axis; with lateral stumps on axis.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
STERILE SPIKELETS Basal sterile spikelets represented by a single scale; 2 in number. Basal sterile spikelet glumes membranous.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 2–3 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 4–5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet, or reaching apex of florets. Lower glume lanceolate, or ovate; 3–4.5 mm long; 1 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume primary vein ciliate. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume margins ciliate. Lower glume apex acute; awned; 1 -awned. Lower glume awn 1–3 mm long. Upper glume lanceolate, or ovate; 3–4.5 mm long; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume primary vein ciliate. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume margins ciliate. Upper glume apex acute; awned; 1 -awned. Upper glume awn 1–3 mm long.
FLORETS Fertile lemma ovate; 3.5–4.5 mm long; membranous; without keel; 3–5 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent; hairy on back. Lemma apex dentate; 5 -fid; awned; 3–5 -awned. Principal lemma awn 2–3 mm long overall. Lateral lemma awns 0.5–1.5 mm long. Palea 1.1 length of lemma; 2 -veined. Palea keels ciliolate. Palea apex awned; awns 1–1.5 mm long.
FLOWER Anthers 3. Stigmas 2; terminally exserted; pubescent. Ovary pubescent on apex.
FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; obovoid; hairy at apex. Hilum elliptic.
DISTRIBUTION Europe: southeastern.
NOTES Poeae. Deyl 1994.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.
