Cinna latifolia Griseb.

Drooping woodreed (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Cinna

Characteristics

Culms solitary or loosely tufted, 0.6–1.6 m tall, 2–3 mm in diam., smooth or scabrid below nodes, 7–9-noded. Leaf sheaths scabrid; leaf blades broadly linear, 15–30 cm, 10–15 mm wide, both surfaces and margin scabrid; ligule 3–6 mm. Panicle droop-ing, 15–40 cm; branches slender, 3–6 per node, up to 10 cm, ascending or spreading with spikelets in clusters along branchlets, scabrid. Spikelets 2.5–4 mm, green; glumes subequal, narrowly lanceolate, lower glume 1-veined, upper glume 1–3-veined; floret raised on 0.1–0.5 mm stipe; lemma oblong-lanceolate, 2.5–3.8 mm, 3(–5)-veined, scabrid; awnlet 0.2–1(–2) mm. Anthers 0.6–0.8 mm. Caryopsis ca. 2 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep. 2n = 28.
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Much like no. 1 [Cinna arundinacea L.]; nodes usually 3-7; lvs to 15 mm wide; ligules colorless or nearly so; infl lax and open, with slender, divaricate or recurved branches, pale green and somewhat shining; first glume 2.3-3.8 (avg 3) mm; second glume 1-veined, 2.6-4.1 (avg 3.3) mm, nearly glabrous except on the keel, the scarious margins constituting half the total width; awn to 1.5 mm; 2n=28. Moist woods; circumboreal, s. to Pa., n. Ill., Minn., and Calif., and in the mts. to N.C.
A grass. It can have one stalk or a cluster. It grows 0.6-1.6 m tall. The stalk is 2-3 mm across. The leaves are narrow and 15-30 cm long by 10-15 mm wide. The flower panicle droops. It is 15-40 cm long. The seeds are 2 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.4 - 1.5
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) 0.3
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Fruit color -
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in damp places in woodlands and along river sides.
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Woods and mountains in N. Japan. Damp woods in N. America.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 6-8
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 2-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
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Optimum temperature (C°) -
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Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Cinna latifolia world distribution map, present in Belarus, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Micronesia (Federated States of), Japan, Montenegro, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Norway, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Sweden, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:396371-1
WFO ID wfo-0000860194
COL ID 5Z7DX
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 773367
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Synonyms

Agrostis latifolia Agrostis suaveolens Blyttia suaveolens Cinna latifolia Cinna expansa Cinna pendula Muhlenbergia baicalensis Cinna suaveolens Muhlenbergia pendula Cinna arundinacea var. pendula Cinna latifolia var. glomerula Cinna pendula var. glomerula Cinna pendula var. mutica Agrostis alba var. koreensis Cinna pendula var. glomerulata Cinna latifolia var. glomerata Cinna pendula var. acutiflora Cinna kamtschatica