Garnotia normanii

HABIT Perennial. Culms erect; 80 cm long. Culm-internodes smooth; distally glabrous. Leaf-sheaths striately veined; glabrous on surface. Ligule a ciliolate membrane; 4–6 mm long; pilose on abaxial surface. Collar glabrous. Leaf-blades flat, or conduplicate; 20–28 cm long; 2–5 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade apex acute.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open, or contracted; lanceolate; 4.5–65 cm long. Primary panicle branches ascending; 5–20 cm long. Panicle branches scabrous.

Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets pedicelled; 2 in the cluster. Pedicels unequal; 2–4.5 mm long.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 4–4.75 mm long; falling entire. Spikelet callus pubescent; base obtuse. Spikelet callus hairs 0.5–1 mm long.

GLUMES Glumes similar; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 4–4.75 mm long; 1.1 length of upper glume; membranous; 3 -veined. Lower glume surface scabrous; rough on veins. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate; 3.5–4 mm long; 1–1.1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 3 -veined. Upper glume surface scabrous; rough on veins. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; 3.5 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma margins involute; interlocking with palea keels. Palea oblong; with auriculate flaps; 3 mm long; cartilaginous; 2 -veined. Palea keels winged (below); narrowly winged.

FLOWER Anthers 3; 2 mm long; brown. Ovary glabrous.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-tropical: Indo-China.

NOTES Arundinelleae. Prakash & Jain 2007.

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