Isachne sikkimensis Bor

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Isachne

Characteristics

Slender herb, annual or short-lived perennial. Culms decumbent, rooting at the base, branching, up to 20 cm tall, basal internodes wiry, purplish, nodes bearded or glabrous. Leaf sheaths purplish green, pubescent, outer margin ciliate; leaf blades narrowly lanceolate, 3–7 × 0.4–0.8 cm with the upper much longer than the lower, both surfaces but especially abaxial papillose-pilose, or subglabrous, margins scaberulous, base rounded, apex acute; ligule ca. 1.5 mm. Panicle open, 4–10 cm, eglandular; primary branches well spaced, smooth, slender, divaricate; pedicels longer than spikelets. Spikelets elliptic, 2–2.4 mm; florets similar; glumes equal to spikelet, herbaceous with broad scarious margins, slightly shining, prominently 5–9-veined, glabrous or rarely upper glume sparsely hirtellous, apex rounded but appearing subacute through incurling margins, lemmas pale creamy-brown, leathery, elliptic-oblong, weakly convex, 1.5–2 mm, glabrous or puberulous.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Distribution

Isachne sikkimensis world distribution map, present in China and Nepal

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:406068-1
WFO ID wfo-0000876059
COL ID 3Q2WG
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Synonyms

Isachne sikkimensis