Bromus texensis

(Shear) Hitchc.
Common names: Texas brome
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 216.
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Illustrator: Cindy Roché

Copyright: Utah State University

Plants annual. Culms 30-70 cm, erect or spreading; nodes 3-5, pubescent. Sheaths densely pub¬escent to pilose; auricles absent; ligules 2-3 mm, lanceolate, pub¬escent, obtuse, erose; blades 7-20 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, flat, usually pubescent to pilose, rarely glabrous. Panicles 8-15 cm, open, drooping; branches ascending to spreading. Spikelets 20-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 4-7 florets. Glumes glabrous or hispidulous; lower glumes 6-9 mm, 1-veined; upper glumes 8-10.5 mm, 3-veined, usually acute, rarely mucronate; lemmas 9-15 mm, lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, glabrous, sometimes scabrous, apices subulate to acute, entire; awns 4-8 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 3-5 mm. 2n = 28.

Discussion

Bromus texensis grows in openings in brushy areas on rocky ground. It is rare, found only southern Texas and northern Mexico.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Bromus texensis"
membranous +  and scarious +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
subulate +  and acute +
Leon E. Pavlickf +
(Shear) Hitchc. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
straight +
distinct +
subterminal +  and terminal +
geniculate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
not evident +
glabrous +, usually pubescent +  and pilose +
cross +, linear +  and narrowly lanceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
ascending;spreading +
spikelike +
Texas brome +
not branching +
spreading +  and erect +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
not woody +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
4 +  and 7 +
terete +  and laterally compressed +
1-9(11)-veined +
always shorter +  and usually shorter +
lanceolate +
subtending +
hispidulous +  and glabrous +
mucronate +  and acute +
unequal +
uncinate +
solid +  and hollow +
rounded +  and lanceolate +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
herbaceous +  and coriaceous +
obtuse +  and lanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
fleshy +  and membranous +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
concealed +  and prominent +
3 +  and 5 +
2 +  and 1 +
hairy +  and glabrous +
well-developed +
reduced +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
1 +  and 60 +
not viviparous +
elliptic +  and lanceolate terete +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Bromus texensis +
Bromus sect. Bromopsis +
species +
membranous +
mucronate +  and acute +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.05 cm10.5 mm <br />0.0105 m <br />) +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +