Hemarthria longiflora (Hook.F.) A.Camus

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Hemarthria

Characteristics

Perennial. Culms loosely tufted, erect from decumbent base, 30–80 cm tall, 2–4 mm in diam., glabrous, spongy, nodes usually pubescent. Leaf sheaths loose, sub-compressed, indistinctly keeled; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, 6–15 × 0.5–0.8 cm, slightly flaccid, glabrous, base subcordate; ligule 0.8–2 mm. Racemes solitary or fascicled, 10–15 cm, stout, articulation line oblique, disarticulating tardily. Sessile spikelet twice as long as adjacent internode, 8–15 mm; callus triangular, 0.1–0.6 mm; lower glume lanceolate, back flat, margins scabrid, apex acuminate-caudate to awnlike; upper glume not adnate to rachis, 10–12 mm, acuminate-caudate; lower floret 3–7 mm; upper floret ca. 4 mm, palea very short. Pedicelled spikelet 8–20 mm, lower glume caudate-aristate, upper glume narrowly acuminate. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Distribution

Hemarthria longiflora world distribution map, present in Andorra, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:404705-1
WFO ID wfo-0000874076
COL ID 3KK9Q
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Synonyms

Rottboellia longiflora Rottboellia tonkinensis Hemarthria longiflora var. tonkinensis Hemarthria longiflora Rottboellia longiflora var. tonkinensis