WorldFloraDB - Dichanthium sericeum

Characteristics

Sessile spikelets elliptic-oblong; inferior glume pilose or rarely glabrous on the back below the middle, always with tubercle-based cilia (up to 6 mm long) along the margins and forming a transverse subapical fringe; superior glume slightly longer than the inferior, glabrous; inferior floret barren, the lemma hyaline; superior floret stipitiform, the lemma hyaline, without a palea; awn c. 30 mm long; anthers c. 2 mm long.

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Caespitose perennial with short rhizomes; culms up to 100 cm high, robust, erect or slightly decumbent; nodes exposed and bearded; internodes glabrous; leaf sheaths glabrous to pilose; ligule a scarious membrane up to 1.5 mm long; leaf laminas up to 15 cm long, linear-lanceolate, glabrous to pilose throughout.

Racemes 1–15, digitate, sessile to subsessile, white-villous, the culm below the inflorescence glabrous; rhachis internodes and pedicels thinly pilose; the lowermost 1–6 spikelet pairs usually homogamous, male or neuter.

Pedicelled spikelets c. 4 mm long, obovate-oblong.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.65 - 0.9

Root system

rhizome

Rooting depth (meter)

0.5

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

-

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c4

Environment

Light	-
Soil humidity	-
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

Uses	animal food environmental use fodder
Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	15 - 28
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

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Flower

Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:398571-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000863611
COL ID	35KRT
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	672237
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Synonyms

Andropogon sericeus Sorghum sericeum Dichanthium sericeum

Lower taxons

Dichanthium sericeum subsp. humilius Dichanthium sericeum subsp. polystachyum Dichanthium sericeum subsp. sericeum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Dichanthium sericeum A.Camus

Silky bluestem (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Dichanthium