Lophatherum Brongn.

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Perennials with spindle-shaped root tubers. Culms unbranched. Leaf blades all cauline, narrowly lanceolate, strongly many-veined with obvious cross veinlets, pseudopetiolate. Inflorescence of loose or dense unilateral racemes spaced on a central axis. Spikelets falling entire, floret 1, rachilla extension bearing a bunch of up to 9 smaller sterile lemmas, cross veinlets evident on glumes and lemmas; glumes unequal, 5–7-veined, apex obtuse; fertile lemma 7-veined, all lemmas with a retrorsely scaberulous awn, those of the sterile lemmas developing into a fan of recurved hooks at maturity. Stamens 2 or 3.
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Hardiness (USDA) 8-12

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Images

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Distribution

Lophatherum world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Japan, Moldova (Republic of), Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:18425-1
WFO ID wfo-4000022188
COL ID 8VYZX
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INPN ID 446310
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Synonyms

Lophatherum

Lower taxons

Lophatherum sinense Lophatherum gracile