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Leptochloa coerulescens Steud.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Leptochloa

Characteristics

Spikelets 3(4)-flowered, 2.2–2.6(3.2) mm long, elliptic-oblong, overlapping; glumes unequal, the inferior 0.7–0.8 mm long, ovate, acute, the superior 1–1.6 mm long, elliptic, obtuse; lemmas 1.5–1.7 mm long, broadly elliptic, keeled, long-pilose on the nerves below, scabrid above, shallowly and bluntly 2-toothed at the apex.
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Stoloniferous perennial up to 120 cm tall, ascending, rooting at the lower nodes; ligule a short membrane; leaf lamina 3–19 cm × 1–5 mm, linear, flat or involute, tapering to a fine point.
Inflorescence 8–19 cm long, narrowly cylindrical; racemes numerous, slender, 1.5–6 cm long, flexuous, often ± appressed to the axis.
Annual up to 1 m. high, sometimes erect but usually the culms decumbent and stolon-like at the base
Caryopsis 0.7–0.8 mm long, obovate, trigonous in section.
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Near water.
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Usage

Uses animal food environmental use
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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:407078-1
WFO ID wfo-0000877812
COL ID 6CVTJ
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Synonyms

Leptochloa coerulescens Dinebra coerulescens
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