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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Symplectrodia lanosa
HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped densely. Rhizomes short. Butt sheaths dark brown, or red; glabrous, or woolly. Culms 180–300 cm long. Culm-nodes pubescent, or bearded. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface, or woolly. Ligule a fringe of hairs; 0.8–1 mm long. Leaf-blades conduplicate; 60–90 cm long; 1–2 mm wide; coriaceous; stiff. Leaf-blade surface scabrous; rough adaxially. Leaf-blade apex pungent.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.
Panicle open; lanceolate; dense, or loose; 44–54 cm long; 5 cm wide. Primary panicle branches 1 -nate; simple; 5–15 cm long; bearing spikelets almost to the base. Panicle branches angular; pubescent.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; laterally compressed; 11–15 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus elongated; curved; 2 mm long; pubescent; pungent.
GLUMES Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet; similar to fertile lemma in texture. Lower glume lanceolate; 9–11 mm long; 0.9 length of upper glume; cartilaginous; without keels; 3–5 -veined. Lower glume apex attenuate, or setaceously attenuate. Upper glume lanceolate; 10–13 mm long; 1–1.3 length of adjacent fertile lemma; cartilaginous; without keels; 3–5 -veined. Upper glume apex attenuate, or setaceously attenuate.
FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; 10 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein ciliate; hairy below. Lemma surface asperulous; rough above and on veins. Lemma margins ciliate. Lemma apex acuminate; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 1–3 mm long overall. Palea fused below to rhachilla internode; 1 length of lemma; cartilaginous; thinner above; 2 -veined. Palea keels scaberulous. Palea apex acute. Apical sterile florets 2–5 in number; abscissing from fertile floret; barren; in a clump; lanceolate; 5–6 mm long. Apical sterile lemmas glabrous, or pilose; adorned on margins; lobed; 3 -fid; awned; 3 -awned. Apical sterile lemma awns 6–7 mm long (laterals 3–4mm).
FLOWER Lodicules 2; cuneate; 1.2–2.5 mm long; fleshy. Anthers 3; 4.8 mm long.
FRUIT Caryopsis with tardily free pericarp; linear; sulcate on hilar side; 4 mm long. Embryo 0.25 length of caryopsis. Hilum elliptic.
DISTRIBUTION Australasia: Australia.
NOTES Eragrostideae. WDC.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.
