Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por North American Flora
Euchlaena mexicana Schrad. Ind. Sein. Hort. Goetting-
1832.— Linnaea 8 : Litt. 25. 1833.
Reana Giovanninii Brign. Ind. Setn. Hort. Mutin. 1849. — Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 12 ; 365. 1849. Reana luxurians Durieu, Bull. Soc. Acclira. II. 9: 581. 1872. Euchlaena Bourgaei Fourn. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15 : 468. 1876. Euchlaena Giovanninii Fourn. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15: 468. 1876." Euchlaena luxurians Durieu & Asch. Bull. Soc. L4nn. Paris 1 : 107. 1877.
A variable grass, perhaps representing more than one species. Stems up to 5 m. tall, slender or stout; leaf-blades up to 1 m. long and 8 cm. wide, usually elongate, lanceolate, acuminate ; staminate racemes up to 1.5 dm. long, the spikelets about 8 mm. long ; pistillate spikelets concealed in the leaf-sheaths, the internodes with oblique ends, hence when short appearing triangular.
Type locality : Mexico.
Distribution : Mexico and Guatemala, and extensively cultivated in warm and tropical regions.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
