Family:
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus:
Bromus L.

Bromus mango É.Desv.

This species is accepted, and its native range is Central & S. Chile to S. Argentina.

[GB]
Morphology General Habit
Annual, or perennial; short-lived. Rhizomes short. Butt sheaths persistent and investing base of culm; with fibrous dead sheaths. Culms 40-60 cm long. Lateral branches lacking. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface, or pilose. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 2-5 mm long; obtuse. Leaf-blades 5-35 cm long; 2-5 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface scabrous; rough adaxially; glabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence a panicle; comprising 5-40 fertile spikelets. Panicle open; lanceolate; equilateral, or nodding; 4-20 cm long. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets comprising 3-6 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; compressed strongly; 7-18 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 3-6 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets oblong; laterally compressed; compressed strongly; 7-18 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes persistent; shorter than spikelet. Lower glume lanceolate; 4-9 mm long; 0.75 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 3-7 -veined. Lower glume surface pilose. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate; 5-11 mm long; 0.8 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 5-9 -veined. Upper glume surface pilose. Upper glume apex acuminate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Fertile lemma lanceolate; 6-13 mm long; chartaceous; much thinner on margins; keeled; 7-9 -veined. Lemma surface pilose. Lemma apex muticous, or mucronate, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn subapical; 0-1 mm long overall. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Lodicules 2; membranous. Anthers 3. Ovary with a fleshy appendage above style insertion; pubescent on apex.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; hairy at apex; apex fleshy. Hilum linear.
Distribution
South America: southern South America.
Reference
Bromeae. Fl Pat 1995.

Native to:

Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South

Bromus mango É.Desv. appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 6, 1950 Lechler [2921], Chile K000482760 Yes
Gay, C. [s.n.], Chile K000482761 Yes
Gay, C. [s.n.], Chile K000308519 Yes
Gusinde, M. [s.n.], Chile K000482759 No

First published in C.Gay, Fl. Chil. 6: 440 (1854)

Accepted by

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

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  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0