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Setaria parviflora (Poir.) Kerguélen

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

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parviflora

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Many-tufted perennials, with mostly inclined culms from an extremely short, slender, knotted, wiry rhizome. Leaf-sheath light green, or distinctly red, or purplish, keeled, submembranous, smooth, sometimes minutely scabrid above; margins glabrous. Ligule ciliate, hairs 0.5-1.2 mm. Collar hairs few, long, tubercle-based. Leaf-blade 5-15 cm × 1.5-6 mm, flat, linear, twisted in upper ½, tapering to scabrid, narrowly acuminate tip, often glaucous, abaxially with obvious midrib, smooth to somewhat scabrid, adaxially scabrid. Culm (2)-20-60 cm, slender, somewhat compressed, internodes very short-pubescent to scabrid just below panicle. Panicle (1.5)-2.5-8.5 cm × 3-8 mm, narrow-cylindric, dense-flowered; rachis densely, softly scabrid-pubescent, with numerous very short branches each bearing a single spikelet subtended by 4-7 unequal, whitish or yellowish, antrorsely scabrid bristles (1.5)-2.5-6 mm. Spikelets 2.2-3 mm, pale green, elliptic, acute. Glumes broadly ovate, obtuse to subacute or apiculate; lower 1-2 mm, 3-nerved, usually < ½ but occasionally to ⅔ length of spikelet, upper 1.5-2.5 mm, 5-nerved, usually ¾ length to occasionally ≈ spikelet. Lower floret: lemma 5-(7)-nerved, ovate; palea = lemma, keels glabrous, rounded. Upper floret: lemma ≈ spikelet, sometimes apiculate, indurated, transversely rugose with close, narrow ridges, convex, greenish at first, later purple-tipped; palea ≈ lemma, somewhat indurated, very finely rugose, keels thickened, smooth except for a few minute prickle-teeth near apex, margins hyaline; anthers 0.6-0.9 mm; caryopsis 1-1.5 mm.

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