Microstegium petiolare (Trin.) Bor

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Microstegium

Characteristics

Perennial, clump-forming or rambling. Culms hard, up to 2 m long, farinose below nodes, nodes densely bearded in tuft at sheath margin or all round. Leaf sheaths glabrous or tuberculate-pilose, margins broad at apex, extended into ligule; leaf blades lanceolate, 15–20 × 1–1.5 cm (excluding pseudopetiole), adaxial surface glabrous, adaxial surface pilose, midvein white, margins scabrid, base narrowed to a pseudopetiole up to 4 cm in lower blades, apex setaceous; ligule 4–11 mm. Racemes 6–20, corymbiform on 2–5 cm axis, lower racemes sometimes on side branches, straw-colored tinged purplish, 6–10 cm; rachis internodes linear, shortly ciliate, equaling spikelet. Sessile spikelet 4.7–5 mm; callus hairs short, soft; lower glume oblong, back grooved, granular-scabrid, 6–8-veined, sharply keeled, keels slightly winged near apex, apex obtuse-denticulate; upper glume sharply keeled, granular-scabrid, apiculate; lower floret staminate, lemma narrowly oblong, subequaling glumes, palea well developed; upper lemma ovate-oblong, 3–4 mm, 2-lobed to about middle; awn geniculate, 0.8–1 cm. Anthers 3, ca. 3 mm. Fl. and fr. Aug–Oct.
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Growth form herb
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Microstegium petiolare world distribution map, present in China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:408533-1
WFO ID wfo-0000879998
COL ID 4378Q
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Synonyms

Andropogon petiolaris Andropogon petiolatus Ischaemum petiolare Pollinia lehmannii Spodiopogon lehmannii Microstegium yunnanense Microstegium petiolare Spodiopogon petiolaris