Dimeria falcata Hack.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Dimeria

Characteristics

Perennial. Culms tufted, wiry, erect or rooting at lowest nodes, 20–70 cm tall, branching, 2–9-noded. Leaf sheaths hirsute with short tubercle-based hairs; leaf blades dark green or reddish, linear, 10–20 × 0.2–0.3 mm, hirsute, adaxial surface with broad white midrib, apex finely acuminate; ligule 0.4–0.5 mm. Racemes 2–3, slightly curved, 2–7 cm, divergent; rachis flattened, margins winged, wing margin scabrid or white-ciliate, internodes 1.5–2 mm; pedicels 0.4–0.5 mm, bearded on outer or both margins. Spikelets linear-oblong, 3.5–4.5 mm, reddish brown or nearly purplish; glumes papery, upper glume with broad scarious margins, back rounded, keeled and scabrid or narrowly winged below apex, or keeled and winged throughout, white-pilose near margins and on keel, apex acute; upper lemma oblanceolate, ca. 2.5 mm; awn 7–10 mm, geniculate; upper palea absent. Anthers 1.7–2 mm. Fl. and fr. autumn.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Dimeria falcata world distribution map, present in China, Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:399286-1
WFO ID wfo-0000864604
COL ID 366F8
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Synonyms

Dimeria taiwaniana Dimeria falcata Dimeria falcata var. taiwaniana Dimeria falcata var. tenuior Dimeria falcata var. falcata