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Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

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(Poir.) Kerguélen
Poir.
Kerguélen
1987
161
ICN
species
Setaria parviflora

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parviflora

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Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

Laxly tufted often straggling annuals, 18-85 cm, yellow-green, often purplish near base. Leaf-sheath compressed, keeled, submembranous to firm, striate, glabrous. Ligule ciliate, hairs to 1 mm. Leaf-blade (3)-8-15-(20) cm × 2-5 mm, flat, soft, abaxially glabrous, adaxially minutely prickle-toothed on ribs, with a few long (to 8 mm) hairs near base; margins and midrib minutely prickle-toothed above, tip long-tapered, acuminate. Culm 10-30-(75) cm, ± erect, nodes compressed, often dark brown, internodes ridged, glabrous, minutely prickle-toothed to pubescent on ridges just below panicle. Panicle 2-5-(8.5) cm × 6-18 mm, cylindric, dense-flowered; rachis hispidulous, with many, short, close-set, hispidulous branches bearing clusters of 2-3, almost sessile spikelets, each spikelet subtended by 6-11 tawny or reddish brown to purplish, antrorsely scabrid bristles (2-8 mm). Spikelets 2.2-2.4 mm, light green, falling entire at maturity. Lower glume 0.7-1.2 mm, ovate, acute or apiculate, 3-nerved, upper 1-2 mm, ovate-orbicular, obtuse, 3-(5)-nerved. Lower floret Ø: lemma 5-nerved, acute; palea ≈ lemma, hyaline. Upper floret ☿: lemma = spikelet, very convex, crustaceous, finely rugulose, pale cream, sometimes apiculate; palea of same texture but ≤ lemma, keels rounded, glabrous; anthers (0.7)-0.9-1.2 mm; caryopsis c. 1.5 × 1.0 mm.

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Panicum pallide-fuscum Schumach.
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria geniculata (Lam.) P.Beauv.
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria gracilis Kunth
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria gracilis Kunth
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria pallide-fusca (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb.
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
Setaria pumila subsp. pallide-fusca (Schumach.) B.K.Simon
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

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New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Australia
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China
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Cook Islands
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Cook Islands
Rarotonga
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Fiji
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
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Norfolk Island
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Samoa
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Tonga
Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen
United States

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46edee1b-f6d2-415e-b9a7-0c600e5040b0
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1 January 2000
8 January 2021
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