DELTA Sample Data
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Including Czernya Presl, Miphragtes Nieuwland, Oxyanthe Steud., Trichoon Roth, Xenochloa Roem. & Schult.
Habit, vegetative morphology. Perennial. Culms 60–400 cm high (–1000 cm); woody and persistent to herbaceous (often somewhat persistent); branched above (especially when main culm damaged), or unbranched above. Culm nodes glabrous. Leaf blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate; 6–50 mm wide; not pseudopetiolate. Ligule a fringe of hairs.
Inflorescence. Plants bisexual, with bisexual spikelets. Inflorescence paniculate; open (20–60 cm long, plumose, the fertile lemmas surrounded by long white silky hairs); not comprising ‘partial inflorescences’ and foliar organs. Spikelet-bearing axes persistent. Spikelets not secund.
Female-fertile spikelets, florets, fruit. Spikelets 9–16 mm long; compressed laterally; disarticulating above the glumes (at least above the L1); disarticulating between the florets. Rachilla prolonged beyond the uppermost female-fertile floret. Hairy callus present (with long fine silky hairs). Glumes two; very unequal; shorter than the adjacent lemmas; awnless; non-carinate (rounded on the back). Upper glume 3–5 nerved. Spikelets with incomplete florets. The incomplete florets both distal and proximal to the female-fertile florets. The proximal incomplete florets 1; male (the stamens often 2), or sterile. The proximal lemmas awnless. Female-fertile florets (2–)3–10. Lemmas entire; pointed (acute to acuminate or aristulate); awnless, or awned (narrow-attenuate, muticous to aristulate). Awns (if lemmas aristulate) 1; apical; non-geniculate; much shorter than the body of the lemma. Lemmas non-carinate; 1–3 nerved. Palea present; conspicuous but relatively short. Lodicules present; fleshy; ciliate, or glabrous. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous. Stigmas 2; brown. Fruit small. Hilum short.
Photosynthetic pathway, leaf blade anatomy. C3; XyMS+. Mesophyll with arm cells. Midrib conspicuous; having a conventional arc of bundles. All the vascular bundles accompanied by sclerenchyma.
Taxonomy, distribution. Arundinoideae; Arundineae. 3 species. Holarctic, Paleotropical, Neotropical, Australian, and Antarctic.
Anatomical references. Metcalfe 1960; this project.
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1998 onwards. DELTA sample data: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval. Version: 21st September 2000. http://delta-intkey.com’.