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Dichanthelium sect. Nudicaulia
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 434.
Plants cespitose. Basal rosettes somewhat differentiated. Culms 20-60 cm, weakly ascending, glabrous; fall phase rarely branching from near the base. Cauline leaves 3-4; sheaths sparsely pilose or glabrous; ligules membranous, ciliate; blades mostly basal, flat to stiffly involute, ascending to erect, uppermost blades much reduced. Primary panicles long-exserted, with few spikelets. Spikelets 2.4-3.2 mm, narrowly ellipsoid to ovoid, glabrous. Upper florets acute.
Discussion
Dichanthelium nudicaule is the only member of sect. Nudicaulia present in the Flora region.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"usually distinctly longer and narrower" is not a number."decumbent" is not a number.
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absent +
common +
absent +
bulliform +
absent +
membranous +
absent +
absent +
arising +
single +
winter +
differentiated +
branching +
cormlike +
hard +
thick +
distinct +
basal +
rebranching +
absent +
sterile +
spikelike +
absent +
sterile +
not developed +
absent +
longer +
sometimes longer +
annual +
climbing +
floating +
herbaceous +
ascending +
glabrous +
woody +
narrow +
Minn. +, Conn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Wash. +, Ala. +, Mich. +, N.C. +, Pa. +, Puerto Rico +, S.C. +, W.Va. +, Ark. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Mo. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Del. +, D.C +, Wis. +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.) +, N.S. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Md. +, Mass. +, Maine +, N.H. +, R.I. +, Vt. +, Fla. +, Wyo. +, Miss. +, Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, La. +, Ga. +, Tenn. +, Calif. +, Nev. +, Colo. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Va. +, Idaho +, Ohio +, Utah +, Mont. +, Oreg. + and Ky. +
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germination +
adjacent +
sometimes longer +
well-developed +
absent +
reduced +
bisexual +
absent +
gaping +
shorter +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
unequal +
membranous +
equal +
absent +
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uncinate +
punctate +
axillary +
elongated +
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distichous +
hyaline +
coriaceous +
true +
absent +
membranous +
free +
absent +
inconspicuous +
glabrous +
cuneate +
fleshy +
staminate +
sterile +
reduced +
1-5-veined +
absent +
thin +
separated +
hyaline +
involute +
absent +
absent +
glabrous +
keeled +
subterranean +
absent +
separating +
thin +
developing +
long-exserted +
chasmogamous +
evident +
cleistogamous +
small +
higher +
included +
small +
open +
closed +
complex +
bisexual +
unisexual +
sessile +
length +
attached +
absent +
glabrous +
varying +
simple +
convex +
Dichanthelium sect. Nudicaulia +
Dichanthelium +
section +
hyaline +
membranous +
sessile +
bisexual +
acute +
plump +
5-11-veined +
not saccate +
slightly shorter +
absent +
subequal +
glabrous +
shiny +
chartaceous-indurate +
reduced +
absent +
rhizomatous +
perennial +
herbaceous +
various +