Amphicarpum Kunth

Maidencane (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Climbing herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules and stipels present. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, sometimes cleistogamous apetalous flowers present also, either at the base of the normal racemes or 1–3 in the axils of lower leaves. Calyx tubular, appearing 4-toothed, the 2 vexillary lobes being entirely connate. Corolla small, white, purple or blue; standard obovate, slightly auriculate, glabrous. Vexillary stamen free; anthers uniform or, in cleistogamous flowers, only 2–5 fertile. Ovary sessile or shortly stalked, many-ovuled; style filiform, bent, not bearded; stigma small, terminal or in cleistogamous flowers the stigma is bent into contact with the anthers, the style being very short. Pod linear or falcate, compressed, not septate; geocarpous indehiscent 1-seeded fruits sometimes present in American species. Seeds subglobose or ovoid; hilum short, lateral; aril not developed.
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Spikelets dimorphic; aerial spikelets in narrow terminal panicles, with a single perfect but often sterile terminal fl and a lateral floret represented only by a glume-like sterile lemma; first glume short or obsolete; second glume and sterile lemma subequal, about as long as the cartilaginous second lemma; fertile lemma with scattered short hairs; subterranean spikelets plump, fusiform, fertile, solitary at the end of a slender elongate branch, the first glume lacking, the second glume and sterile lemma several-veined, equaling the indurate fertile lemma; annual or perennial grasses with relatively short lvs and ciliate ligule. 2, the other in se. U.S.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Distribution

Amphicarpum world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Georgia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30090566-2
WFO ID wfo-4000001700
COL ID 8VTPT
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Synonyms

Amphicarpum

Lower taxons

Amphicarpum amphicarpon Amphicarpum muhlenbergianum