Cutandia

Willk.
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 611.
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FNA24 P231B Cutandia pg 611.jpegCutandia memphiticaCindy Roché

Plants annual. Culms (4) 10-42 cm. Sheaths open to the base; auricles absent; ligules membranous; blades flat to convolute. Inflorescences usually panicles, rarely racemes; branches divaricate, some branches longer than 1 cm; pedicels of lateral spikelets 0.3-2 mm, pedicels of terminal spikelets on a branch longer. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 2-9 (12) florets, distal florets often reduced; disarticulation occurring variously at the base of the florets, the pedicels, or the branches. Glumes equal or unequal, usually shorter than the adjacent lemmas, membranous, acuminate, rounded, or emarginate, unawned or shortly awned, awns glabrous; lower glumes 1-3-veined; upper glumes 1-5-veined; calluses short, glabrous; lemmas membranous, 3-veined, keeled on each vein, apices usually emarginate or bifid, varying to rounded or acuminate, unawned, mucronate, or awned from the sinus or slightly below; paleas subequal to the lemmas; lodicules 2, free, membranous, ciliate; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. Caryopses shorter than the lemmas, concealed at maturity, narrow, longitudinally grooved; hila oval, x = 7.

Discussion

Cutandia is a Mediterranean and western Asian genus of six species, one of which has been collected in California.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Cutandia"
membranous +  and scarious +
bifid +  and emarginate +
awned +, mucronate +, acuminate +  and rounded +
Mary E. Barkworth +
Willk. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
straight +
basal +  and terminal +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
not evident +
flat +  and convolute +
spikelike +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
not branching +
ascending +  and erect +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (42 cm420 mm <br />0.42 m <br />) +
not woody +
1/4 +  and 1/3 +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
2 +  and 9 +
sterile +  and bisexual +
compressed +
reduced +
awned +  and emarginate +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
rounded +  and acuminate +
unequal +
membranous +
uncinate +
membranous +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
well-developed +
2-keeled +
subequal +
spikelike +
dry +  and fleshy +
stace1978a +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
1 +  and 60 +
compressed +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Cutandia +
Poaceae tribe Poeae +
membranous +
parallel +  and converging +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +