Agrostis sinocontracta S.M.Phillips & S.L.Lu

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Agrostis

Characteristics

Perennial, tufted. Culms erect, 30–50 cm tall, 1–2 mm in diam., 3–4-noded. Leaf sheaths loose, smooth; leaf blades linear, soft, culm blades 10–14 cm × 3–5 mm, blades of tillers ca. 1 mm wide, abaxial surface scabrid or almost smooth, adaxial surface scabrid; ligule 1–2.5 mm, apex truncate. Panicle laxly contracted, lanceolate in outline, 10–15 cm; branches 1–3 at each node or sometimes secondary branching from base, narrowly ascending, 2.5–3.5 cm, almost smooth, a few widely scattered scabridities, bearing spikelets for most of length. Spikelets 2.5–3 mm, green tinged purplish gray; glumes narrowly lanceolate, lower glume slightly longer than upper glume, keel scabrid, apex acuminate; callus hairs 0.1–0.2 mm; lemma ca. 1/2 spikelet length, awned from upper 1/4–1/3, apex emarginate-denticulate; awn recurved in right angle from lower 1/3, slightly twisted below bend, 3–3.3 mm; palea ca. 0.25 mm. Anthers 0.5–0.7 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug–Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Distribution

Agrostis sinocontracta world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77076107-1
WFO ID wfo-0000844458
COL ID 65THG
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Synonyms

Agrostis contracta Agrostis sinocontracta