Schizachne Hack.

False melic (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Perennial. Culms slender, erect. Leaf sheaths with margins fused in lower part; leaf blades linear. Panicle little branched, often racemelike, spikelets few. Spikelets elliptic, florets several, upper 1 or 2 sterile; rachilla scabrid, disarticulating below each floret; glumes broadly lanceolate, shorter than first floret, unequal with lower glume shorter, membranous, lower glume 1–3-veined, upper glume 5-veined, apex subacute; floret callus oblong, bearded, obtuse; lemmas lanceolate, thickly herbaceous, back rounded, 7-veined, apex shallowly 2-toothed, awned from just below teeth; awn straight or slightly recurved, usually longer than lemma body; palea 2/3–3/4 lemma length, keels ciliate above middle. Stamens 3. Caryopsis oblong, free from lemma and palea. Chromosomes small. x = 10.
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Spikelets 3–5-fld, disarticulating above the glumes and between the lemmas; glumes membranous, 1–5-veined; lemmas narrow, rounded on the back, 5–7-veined, bifid at the tip, with an awn between the teeth, densely short-bearded on the callus; uppermost lemma similar but much smaller and sterile; slender, loosely tufted perennial grasses with flat lvs and ample panicles. Monotypic.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Images

Schizachne unspecified picture

Distribution

Schizachne world distribution map, present in China, Colombia, Micronesia (Federated States of), Kazakhstan, Montenegro, Malaysia, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:18957-1
WFO ID wfo-4000034387
COL ID 8W3DL
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Synonyms

Schizachne

Lower taxons

Schizachne purpurascens