- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Eragrostiella Bor
Eragrostiella lolioides (Hand.-Mazz.) Keng f.
- Genus: Eragrostiella Bor
This species is accepted, and its native range is China (Yunnan).
Descriptions
According to GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
[GB]- Habit
- Perennial; caespitose; clumped densely. Cataphylls evident. Culms erect; 20-50 cm long. Lateral branches lacking. Leaves mostly basal. Leaf-sheath oral hairs ciliate. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades filiform; convolute; 5-15 cm long; 0.5 mm wide; stiff; grey-green. Leaf-blade venation indistinct. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy adaxially. Leaf-blade margins scabrous. Leaf-blade apex obtuse.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 1; single; erect; unilateral; 10-30 cm long; bearing 7-35 fertile spikelets on each. Rhachis angular. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis; distant. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
- Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 7-12 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 5-8 mm long; 3 mm wide; breaking up at maturity; rhachilla persistent; retaining paleas.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 7-12 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; 5-8 mm long; 3 mm wide; breaking up at maturity; rhachilla persistent; retaining paleas.
- Glume
- Glumes similar; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; 2 mm long; 0.66 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex obtuse. Upper glume lanceolate; 3 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex obtuse.
- Florets
- Fertile lemma ovate; 3 mm long; cartilaginous; keeled; keeled above; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein scaberulous. Lemma apex truncate. Palea ovate; 2 -veined. Palea keels winged; narrowly winged. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
- Flowers
- Lodicules 2; cuneate; fleshy. Anthers 3.
- Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid; 0.75 mm long.
- Distribution
- Asia-temperate: China.
- Reference
- Eragrostideae. Hand-Mazz 1996.
Distribution
Synonyms
Other Data
Eragrostiella lolioides (Hand.-Mazz.) Keng f. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Acta Bot. Sin. 9: 51 (1960)
Accepted by
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
- Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Sources
GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0