Eragrostis setifolia

Nees
Common names: Neverfail lovegrass
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 78.

Plants perennial; cespitose, with innovations and thickened or knotty plant bases; plant bases with woolly hairs, hairs coarse, to 2 cm. Culms 12-60 cm, erect, glabrous or hairy near the base, often shiny below the nodes. Sheaths glabrous, summits shortly pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm; ligules 0.3-0.5 mm, ciliate; blades 3-11 cm long, 0.7-2 mm wide, involute or flat, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially. Panicles 6-11 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, narrowly ovate, loosely contracted; primary branches 1-3 cm, compact, appressed or diverging to 30° from the rachises, sometimes naked near the base; pulvini glabrous; pedicels 0.2-3 mm, diverging, scabridulous. Spikelets 3-6 (15) mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, stramineous, with 9-30 florets; disarticulation irregular or basipetal, paleas persistent. Glumes subequal, 1-1.3 mm, ovate, membranous, apices obtuse to acute; lemmas 1.4-1.6 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous, lateral-veins conspicuous, green, sometimes obscure towards the apices, apices obtuse; paleas 1.4-1.6 mm, hyaline, apices truncate, ciliolate; anthers 3, 0.5-0.8 mm, yellowish. Caryopses 0.4-0.5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, strongly dorsally compressed, usually with a shallow dorsal groove, smooth to finely striate, mostly light-brown, bases often greenish. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Eragrostis setifolia is an Australian species that was collected around the Santee Wool Combing Mill, Jamestown, Berkeley County, South Carolina, in 1958. It is not known to have spread from that location. There is no illustration of the species because it was a late addition to the treatment. For digital images, see http://herbarium.usu.edu/webmanual/.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Eragrostis setifolia"
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
obtuse +  and acute +
Paul M. Peterson +
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 +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (11 cm110 mm <br />0.11 m <br />) +
scabridulous +
flat +  and involute +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
not disarticulating +
not spikelike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
compressed +  and oblong-ellipsoid +
0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
Neverfail lovegrass +
branched +, simple +  and rooting +
hairy +  and glabrous +
geniculate +
12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
not woody +
Conn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Md. +, Va. +, Wash. +, W.Va. +, Mich. +, Wis. +, Del. +, D.C +, Ark. +, Kans. +, Minn. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Calif. +, Iowa +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, N.S. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Mass. +, Maine +, N.H. +, R.I. +, Vt. +, Fla. +, La. +, Mo. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, Wyo. +, Puerto Rico +, Oreg. +, Idaho +, N.C. +, Tenn. +, S.C. +, Ala. +, Virgin Islands +, Pa. +, Miss. +, Nev. +, Colo. +, Ill. +, Ohio +, Utah +, Ga. +, Ind. +, Ariz. +, Mont. +  and Ky. +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
9 +  and 30 +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
persistent +  and deciduous +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
subequal +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
membranous +
uncinate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
obscure +  and conspicuous +
not absent +
(1)3(5)-veined +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
membranous +
sometimes longer +
ciliate +  and ciliolate +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
persistent +
2-keeled +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
open +  and simple +
6cm +  and 11cm +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
scabridulous +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
diverging;appressed +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
spikelike +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
1 +  and 60 +
linear-lanceolate +
1.3mm +  and 2mm +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Eragrostis setifolia +
Eragrostis +
species +
membranous +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
rhizomatous +  and stoloniferous +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +  and synoecious +