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  1. Family: Poaceae Barnhart
    1. Genus: Anthoxanthum L.

      1. Anthoxanthum potaninii (Tzvelev) S.M.Phillips & Z.L.Wu

        This species is accepted, and its native range is China (S. Gansu, W. Sichuan).

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    Habit
    Perennial; caespitose; clumped loosely. Rhizomes short. Culms erect; 50-120 cm long. Culm-internodes smooth. Leaf-sheaths smooth, or scaberulous; glabrous on surface. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 4-8 mm long. Leaf-blades flat; 8-15 cm long; 6-14 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface smooth, or scaberulous; rough adaxially; glabrous.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; lanceolate; 12-22 cm long; 2-6 cm wide. Panicle branches smooth. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
    Spikelets
    Spikelets comprising 2 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; laterally compressed; 4-6 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
    Fertile
    Spikelets comprising 2 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; laterally compressed; 4-6 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
    Glume
    Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet, or reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma; shiny. Lower glume lanceolate; 2-4 mm long; 0.5-0.7 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume surface smooth; glabrous. Lower glume apex obtuse, or acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 3-6 mm long; membranous; 1-keeled; 3 -veined. Upper glume primary vein smooth. Upper glume surface glabrous. Upper glume apex obtuse, or acute.
    Florets
    Basal sterile florets similar; male; with palea; attached to and deciduous with the fertile. Lemma of lower sterile floret lanceolate; 4-6 mm long; chartaceous; 1-keeled; 5 -veined; scabrous; ciliolate on margins; emarginate. Lemma of upper sterile floret lanceolate; 4-6 mm long; chartaceous; scabrous; ciliate on margins; emarginate; awned. Awn of upper sterile floret 2-4 mm long. Fertile lemma lanceolate; 3 mm long; cartilaginous; shiny; without keel. Lemma surface scaberulous; rough above. Lemma margins convolute; covering most of palea. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea 1 -veined; without keels.
    Flowers
    Lodicules 2. Anthers 2 (bisexual), or 3 (male); 2-3.5 mm long.
    Fruits
    Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Hilum linear.
    Distribution
    Asia-temperate: China.
    Reference
    Aveneae. Tsvelev 2001.

    Distribution

    Native to:

    China North-Central, China South-Central

    Anthoxanthum potaninii (Tzvelev) S.M.Phillips & Z.L.Wu appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in Novon 15: 476 (2005)

    Not accepted by

    • Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Hierochloe potaninii.]

    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
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. 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 2020. 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