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Gymnopogon P.Beauv.

Skeletongrass (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Spikelets 1-fld (in ours), articulated above the glumes, sessile, appressed and remote along two sides of a slender triangular rachis; glumes subequal, subulate, 1-veined; lemma shorter than the glumes, narrow, rounded on the back, obscurely 3-veined, tipped with a short straight awn; rachilla often prolonged behind the palea, bearing at its summit a greatly reduced lemma or short awn; ours perennial, with short erect culms from a knotty rhizome, minute ligule, stiffly spreading lvs, and a large panicle of very slender, elongate, divaricate spikes. 10, New World.
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Spikelets 1-to 3-flowered, articulated above the glumes, subsessile in two rows on one side of the slender rachis, the rachilla prolonged beyond the upper floret, often bearing a very rudimentary floret, this sometimes reduced to awns; glumes narrow, acuminate, 1-nerved, nearly equal, longer than the florets; lemmas narrow, 3-nerved, awned from between the teeth of a minutely bifid apex, or sometimes almost awnless.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-12

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Images

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Distribution

Gymnopogon world distribution map, present in Åland Islands, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Dominica, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay, United States of America, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:325274-2
WFO ID wfo-4000016509
COL ID 8VY24
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INPN ID 730944
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Synonyms

Gymnopogon Anthopogon

Lower taxons

Gymnopogon ambiguus Gymnopogon aristiglumis Gymnopogon brevifolius Gymnopogon burchellii Gymnopogon chapmanianus Gymnopogon delicatulus Gymnopogon doellii Gymnopogon fastigiatus Gymnopogon foliosus Gymnopogon glaber Gymnopogon grandiflorus Gymnopogon legrandii Gymnopogon toldensis Gymnopogon spicatus
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