Comprehensive Description
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Eremochloa leersioides (Munro) Hack, in DC. Monog
Phan. 6 : 264. 1889.
Ischaemum leersioides Munro, Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 363. 1860.
Stems 2-4 dm. tall, erect, slender, simple, hirsute, especially above ; leaf-sheaths hirsute ; blades 4-8 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, rigid, sometimes folded, hirsute ; racemes 2-3 cm. long, somewhat curved, slender, the internodes about one half as long as the spikelets, barbed at the base, pubescent on the back ; spikelets 3.5 mm. long, elliptic-oblong, spreading, the first scale flat or somewhat convolute, the keels pectinate with straight bristles, the longer ones about equaling the length of the scale, pilose on the back, the second scale pubescent below, the third scale ciliolate at the apex, the fourth scale oblong, glabrous, nerveless ; primary spikelet wanting, its pedicel present, acuminate, barbed at the base, a little longer than the internode to which it is appressed.
Type locality : Whampoa, China.
Distribution : Collected at San Francisco, California, by Bolander (according 1 to Thurber) ; a
- 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
