Comprehensive Description
(
anglais
)
fourni par North American Flora
Coelorachis impressa (Griseb.) Nash
Rottboellia impressa Griseb. Cat. PL Cuba 235. 1866. Manisuris impressa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 780. 1891.
Stems tufted, branched, up to 1 m. tall, smooth and glabrous ; leaf-sheaths round, smooth and glabrous, excepting on the ciliate margin near the apex ; blades very narrow, confluent with the sheaths, up to 4 dm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, the upper portion occupied by the very thick whitish midnerve, the margins incurved, making the upper surface of the leaf concave, hispid-ciliate ; racemes up to 12 cm. long, cylindric, less than 2 mm. in diameter ; sessile spikelet, with the basal callus, 4 mm. long, the firs,t scale linear-oblong, cartilaginous, very obtuse, with a few longitudinal furrows ; pedicellate spikelet reduced to -2 or 3 scales, usually less than 1 mm. long, the pedicel linear, somewhat curved, shorter than the sessile spikelet.
Type locality : Western Cuba.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- citation bibliographique
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
