- Family:
- Poaceae Barnhart
Stipagrostis Nees

[FZ]
Gramineae, E. Launert. Flora Zambesiaca 10:1. 1971
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelets 1-flowered, pedicelled, in terminal contracted or lax panicles.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Florets hermaphrodite, equalling or shorter than the glumes.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
- Glumes persistent, equal or unequal, narrow, acuminate to obtuse, occasionally emarginate, 1-11-nerved, usually both 3-nerved.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Lemma
- Lemma narrow, cylindric, with involute margins, 3-nerved, grooved ventrally, becoming indurated at maturity, bearing at the base a well developed pungent or minutely 2-fid, usually oblique, barbate or glabrous callus, awned from the apex of the lemma or from the apex of a usually twisted column; awns usually 3, all plumose, or at least the central one plumose, or with a penicil of hairs at the apex of the column; articulation present, being situated at or above the middle or between the base of the column and the body of the lemma.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Palea
- Palea usually much less than 1/2 the length of the lemma, indurated, 2-nerved, glabrous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Lodicules
- Lodicules usually 2, or absent, obtuse.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 3.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary glabrous; styles free; stigmas 2, plumose.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Caryopsis terete, frequently shallowly grooved ventrally, tightly enclosed by the lemma, free; hilum linear; embryo usually 1/3-1/2 the length of the caryopsis.
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or densely caespitose perennial grasses with a well developed knotty rhizomatous base, with usually erect, simple or branched, hollow or solid culms, and with usually long narrow leaves; ligule of a dense rim of cilia; panicles narrow, spiciform or effuse and open.
[GB]
nonem
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual (6), or perennial (51). Rhizomes absent (41), or short (5), or elongated (12). Stolons absent, or present (1). Culms erect (17/28), or geniculately ascending (14/28), or decumbent (6/28); reed-like (1/2), or slender (1/2); 2-45.92-200 cm long; firm (50), or wiry (2), or woody (4); without nodal roots (1/1), or rooting from lower nodes (1/1). Culm-internodes similar in length (1/2), or unequal, the upper longer (1/2); terete (1/1). Lateral branches lacking (12/29), or sparse (3/29), or ample (2/29), or fastigiate (4/29), or suffrutescent (13/29). Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades persistent (52), or deciduous at the ligule (4); aciculate (11), or filiform (31), or linear (14), or lanceolate (1); herbaceous (52), or coriaceous (4); stiff (19), or firm (37). Leaf-blade midrib indistinct (1/1). Leaf-blade apex muticous (40), or pungent (17).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle; subtended by an unspecialized leaf-sheath (55), or an inflated leaf-sheath (1); exserted (46), or embraced at base by subtending leaf (15). Panicle open (34/55), or contracted (24/55), or spiciform (3/55). Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels filiform (1/1); tip widened (1/1).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets linear (2), or lanceolate (54); subterete; 6.225-14.28-50 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus evident (5), or elongated (51); pubescent (35/55), or pilose (7/55), or bearded (14/55); obtuse (2), or acute (17), or pungent (36), or 2-toothed (1).
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets linear (2), or lanceolate (54); subterete; 6.225-14.28-50 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus evident (5), or elongated (51); pubescent (35/55), or pilose (7/55), or bearded (14/55); obtuse (2), or acute (17), or pungent (36), or 2-toothed (1).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
- Glumes persistent; exceeding apex of florets (54/54); thinner than fertile lemma (53), or similar to fertile lemma in texture (3). Lower glume linear (4/55), or lanceolate (54/55), or oblong (1/55); 0.5-1.014-8 length of upper glume; membranous (46), or chartaceous (9), or cartilaginous (1); without keels (52/54), or 1-keeled (3/54); 1 -veined (2), or 3 -veined (49), or 4 -veined (4), or 5 -veined (7), or 6 -veined (2), or 7 -veined (4), or 8-9 -veined (3). Lower glume lateral veins absent (2), or distinct (54); without ribs (52/54), or ribbed (2/54). Lower glume surface smooth (43), or asperulous (10), or scabrous (3); glabrous (46), or puberulous (4), or pubescent (1), or pilose (12). Lower glume apex emarginate (3/55), or truncate (2/55), or obtuse (7/55), or acute (10/55), or acuminate (33/55), or attenuate (4/55), or setaceously attenuate (1/55); muticous (51/55), or mucronate (3/55), or awned (2/55). Upper glume linear (5/55), or lanceolate (53/55), or oblong (1/55); 1.1-2.699-5 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous (46), or chartaceous (9), or cartilaginous (1); without keels (52/54), or 1-keeled (2/54); 1 -veined (5), or 2 -veined (3), or 3 -veined (50), or 4 -veined (3), or 5 -veined (6), or 7-9 -veined (1). Upper glume lateral veins without ribs (53/54), or ribbed (1/54). Upper glume surface smooth (45), or asperulous (9), or scabrous (2); glabrous (47), or puberulous (4), or pubescent (1), or pilose (8); without hair tufts (55), or with basal tufts of hair (1). Upper glume apex entire (54), or dentate (2); 2 -fid (1/1); emarginate (1/54), or truncate (2/54), or obtuse (4/54), or acute (15/54), or acuminate (31/54), or attenuate (5/54), or setaceously attenuate (1/54); muticous (50/55), or mucronate (6/55), or awned (2/55); 1 -awned (2/2).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Fertile lemma lanceolate (5), or elliptic (1), or oblong (51); subterete (19/19); chartaceous (3), or coriaceous (53); without keel (54/54); 3 -veined (54/54). Lemma surface smooth (45), or granulose (1), or scaberulous (4), or scabrous (2), or papillose (2), or tuberculate (2), or punctate (2). Lemma margins flat (1), or convolute (55); exposing palea (2), or covering most of palea (54). Lemma apex emarginate (1/53), or acute (52/53); without ornament (55), or tuberculate (1); awned; 1 -awned (1), or 3 -awned (55). Principal lemma awn straight (2), or geniculate (1), or 3-branched (53); limb glabrous (1), or ciliate (1), or plumose (54). Column of lemma awn glabrous (49/54), or pubescent (1/54), or ciliate (4/54), or plumose (1/54); without distinct apical hairs (51/54), or with bearded apex (3/54). Lateral lemma awns longer than principal (1/54), or subequal to principal (10/54), or shorter than principal (43/54). Palea present (55), or absent or minute (1); not rolled (54/55), or involute (1/55); 0.1-0.3446-0.5 length of lemma; membranous (53/55), or chartaceous (2/55); 0 -veined (1/4), or 2 -veined (3/4); without keels (53/55), or 2-keeled (2/55).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Lodicules 2 (4/4); membranous (3/3). Anthers 3 (5/5). Ovary glabrous (1/1).
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp (22/22); linear (1/20), or fusiform (9/20), or ellipsoid (5/20), or oblong (2/20), or obovoid (1/20), or oblanceolate (2/20); isodiametric (1/2), or dorsally compressed (1/2). Embryo 0.3-0.4419-0.66 length of caryopsis. Hilum linear (15/15); 0.33-0.922-1 length of caryopsis.
- Distribution
- Europe (2), or Africa (48), or Temperate Asia (23), or Tropical Asia (6).
[FTEA]
Gramineae, W. D. Clayton, S. M. Phillips And S. A. Renvoize. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1974
- Morphology General Habit
- Densely tufted perennials, suffrutices with knotty rhizomatous base, or delicate annuals
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaf-blades narrow or terete, sometimes early deciduous leaving sheaths and chlorophyll-bearing culms as the main photosynthetic organs
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Panicle open or contracted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelets 1-flowered with scarious glumes; lemma cylindrical, indurated, produced into a three-branched awn; awn with or without a column, articulated at the base of the column or near the middle of the lemma, the branches or at least the central one plumose; callus well-developed, pungent or minutely bifid, usually oblique; palea usually less than half as long as the lemma.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General
- Perennial, rarely annual, sometimes with knotty rhizomatous base or suffruticose; leaves mostly inrolled, sometimes pungent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Glumes 1- to 11-nerved; callus of floret long and pungent; lemma convolute; awns with or without a column, the central always, the laterals sometimes, plumose.
- Distribution
- Some 50 species in Africa, south-western and central Asia, and Pakistan.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Botswana, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, Cyprus, Djibouti, East European Russia, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gulf States, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South European Russi, Sudan, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Stipagrostis acutiflora (Trin. & Rupr.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis amabilis (Schweick.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis anomala De Winter
- Stipagrostis arachnoidea (Litv.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis brachyathera (Coss. & Balansa) De Winter
- Stipagrostis brevifolia (Nees) De Winter
- Stipagrostis ciliata (Desf.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis damarensis (Mez) De Winter
- Stipagrostis dhofariensis Cope
- Stipagrostis dinteri (Hack.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis drarii (Täckh.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis dregeana Nees
- Stipagrostis fastigiata (Hack.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis foexiana (Maire & Wilczek) De Winter
- Stipagrostis garubensis (Pilg.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis geminifolia Nees
- Stipagrostis giessii Kers
- Stipagrostis gonatostachys (Pilg.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis grandiglumis (Roshev.) Tzvelev
- Stipagrostis griffithii (Henrard) De Winter
- Stipagrostis hermannii (Mez) De Winter
- Stipagrostis hirtigluma (Steud. ex Trin. & Rupr.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis hochstetteriana (Beck ex Hack.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis karelinii (Trin. & Rupr.) H.Scholz
- Stipagrostis lanata (Forssk.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis lanipes (Mez) De Winter
- Stipagrostis libyca (H.Scholz) H.Scholz
- Stipagrostis lutescens (Nees) De Winter
- Stipagrostis masirahensis H.Scholz
- Stipagrostis multinerva H.Scholz
- Stipagrostis namaquensis (Nees) De Winter
- Stipagrostis namibensis De Winter
- Stipagrostis obtusa (Delile) Nees
- Stipagrostis paradisea (Edgew.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis pellytronis De Winter
- Stipagrostis pennata (Trin.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis plumosa (L.) Munro ex T.Anderson
- Stipagrostis prodigiosa (Welw.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis proxima (Steud.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis pungens (Desf.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis raddiana (Savi) De Winter
- Stipagrostis ramulosa De Winter
- Stipagrostis rigidifolia H.Scholz
- Stipagrostis sabulicola (Pilg.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis sahelica (Trab.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis schaeferi (Mez) De Winter
- Stipagrostis scoparia (Trin. & Rupr.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis seelyae De Winter
- Stipagrostis shawii (H.Scholz) H.Scholz
- Stipagrostis sokotrana (Vierh.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis subacaulis (Nees) De Winter
- Stipagrostis uniplumis (Licht.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis vexillifeta Kers
- Stipagrostis vulnerans (Trin. & Rupr.) De Winter
- Stipagrostis xylosa Cope
- Stipagrostis zeyheri (Nees) De Winter
Stipagrostis Nees appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Linnaea 7: 290 (1832)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- de Winter in Bothalia 8: 307 (1965).
- in Linnaea 7: 290 (1832)
Flora Zambesiaca
- Fl. Afr. Austr.: 171 (1841).
- de Winter in Kirkia, 3: 133 (1963)
- in Bothalia, 8: 307 (1965).
- in Linnaea, 7: 290 (1832)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Henr. in Med. Rijks Herb. Leiden 58 (1929)
- de Winter in Bothalia 8: 307 (1965)
- in Linnaea 7: 290 (1832)
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Flora Zambesiaca
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Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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Kew Backbone Distributions
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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Plants and People Africa
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