Gjminopogon floridanus

Gjminopogon floridanus Swallen, sp. nov
Perennial; culms in small tufts, erect, 15-45 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous, the lower ones short, crowded, the upper one as much as 12 cm. long, about equaling the base of the panicle; ligule an irregular line of hairs less than 0.5 mm. long; blades 2.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, flat, distichous, subcordate, stiffly spreading, glabrous, scabrous on the margins; spikes 5-20, usually less than 15, stifHy spreading or reflexed, S-I6 cm. long, floriferous from the base, the lower spikelets sometimes abortive, the rachis scabrous, the pulvini densely villous; spikelets 3-5 mm. long, subsessile, appressed, 2-3-flowered ; glumes acuminate, one-nerved, as long as the florets or sometimes exceeding them, never widely spreading exposing the florets, scabrous on the keels and often on the margins; florets 2-2.2 mm. long, the callus blunt, densely bearded; lemma acute, minutely bifid, usually densely ciliate on the margins, sparsely pilose across the back especially toward the base, the awn 0.5-2 mm. long, sometimes wanting; palea as long as the lemma or slightly exceeding it.
Pereimis; culmi caespitosi, erecti, 15-45 cm. aiti; vaginae glabrae, breves, internodiis longiores, suprema ad 12 cm. longa; ligula ciliata 0.5 mm. longa; laminae 2-5 cm. longae, 2-4 mm. latae, planae, distichae, subcordatae, glabrae, marginibus scabris; spicae 5-20, divergentes vel reflexae, ad basim floriferae; spiculae 3-5 ram. longae, 2-3 florae, subsessiles, appressae; glumae aequales, acuminatae, I -nerves, carinis scabris; lemma 2-2.2 mm. longum, acutum, minute bifidum, pilosum, marginibus ciliatis, callo dense piloso; aristae 0.5-2 ram. longae; palea lemma aequans.
Type collected on open sandy prairie, Penny Farms, Clay County, Florida, Nov. 15, 1938, Swallen 5596 (U. S. Nat. Herb. no. 1723536).
Distribution: Sandy prairies, peninsular Florida.