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Eragrostis tephrosanthos Schult.

Éragrostis cendré (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Eragrostis

Characteristics

Annual; culms slender, erect or geniculate-spreading, 10-30 cm. high; blades lax, flat, acuminate, 4-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous; panicles lax, open, 5-12 cm. long, pilose in the axils, the branches spreading, naked at the base, often rather densely flowered; spikelets plumbeous, 4-6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 6-to 12-flowered, short-pedicellate, usually somewhat spreading, the first glume 1 mm. long, the second about 1.3 mm. long; lemmas 2 mm. long, subobtuse.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.13 - 0.35
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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-11

Usage

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

Cultivation

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Distribution

Eragrostis tephrosanthos world distribution map, present in Aruba, Åland Islands, Austria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Micronesia (Federated States of), Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:322597-2
WFO ID wfo-0000868528
COL ID 6FZD2
BDTFX ID 76700
INPN ID 160623
Wikipedia (EN)
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Synonyms

Eragrostis parvula Eragrostis tephrosanthos Poa delicatula Poa tephrosanthos Poa havanensis Eragrostis arida Eragrostis jacquinii Eragrostis diffusa var. arida Eragrostis pectinacea var. miserrima Eragrostis purshii var. miserrima Eragrostis purshii var. pauciflora
WorldFloraDB 2024