Eragrostis prolifera

(Sw.) Steud.
Common names: Dominican lovegrass
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 99.

Plants perennial; cespitose, with innovations, without rhizomes, not glandular. Culms 85-130 (150) cm, stiffly erect, glabrous below the nodes. Sheaths glabrous or hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm; ligules 0.1-0.2 mm; blades 25-50 cm long, 1.5-6 mm wide, flat to involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, sometimes also with a few scattered hairs near the base. Panicles (10) 20-50 (60) cm long, 2-8 (10) cm wide, narrowly ovate, contracted to open; primary branches mostly 2-14 cm, appressed or diverging up to 50° (90°) from the rachises, spikelets congested near the base of the branches; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 0.3-2.4 mm, appressed, always shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets 3.2-10 (12) mm long, 0.7-1.4 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, stramineous to plumbeous, sometimes with a reddish tinge, with (5) 8-25 florets; disarticulation acropetal, glumes first, then the lemmas, paleas persistent. Glumes subequal, ovate to lanceolate, hyaline; lower glumes 1-1.5 mm; upper glumes 1.1-1.6 mm; lemmas 1.1-1.8 (2) mm, ovate, membranous, apices acute; paleas 0.8-1.7 mm, hyaline, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse to truncate; anthers 2, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish. Caryopses 0.6-0.9 mm, ovoid, flattened ventrally, finely striate, reddish-brown. 2n = 40.

Discussion

Eragrostis prolifera grows on beaches, in brackish water, and along roadsides, at elevations below 5 m in Florida. Its range extends southward from Florida through Mexico and Central America to Colombia.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Eragrostis prolifera"
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br />) +
obtuse +  and truncate +
Paul M. Peterson +
(Sw.) Steud. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
not +  and glabrous +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br />) +
scabridulous +
flat +  and involute +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
not disarticulating +
not spikelike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
reddish-brown +
flattened +  and ovoid +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
Dominican lovegrass +
branched +, simple +  and rooting +
geniculate +
85 cm850 mm <br />0.85 m <br /> (130 cm1,300 mm <br />1.3 m <br />) +
not woody +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
8 +  and 25 +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
persistent +  and deciduous +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
ovate +  and lanceolate +
subequal +
uncinate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
not absent +
(1)3(5)-veined +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
membranous +
sometimes longer +
ciliate +  and ciliolate +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
persistent +
2-keeled +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
narrower +
20cm +  and 50cm +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.24 cm2.4 mm <br />0.0024 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
diverging;appressed +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br />) +
spikelike +
hairy +  and glabrous +
stramineous +  and plumbeous +
0.32 cm3.2 mm <br />0.0032 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1 +  and 60 +
linear-lanceolate +
0.7mm +  and 1.4mm +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Eragrostis prolifera +
Eragrostis +
species +
membranous +
0.11 cm1.1 mm <br />0.0011 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +  and synoecious +