- Family:
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus:
- Chloris Sw.
Chloris cucullata Bisch.
[GB]
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial; caespitose. Basal innovations flabellate. Culms erect; 15-60 cm long. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades 3-20 cm long; 2-4 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface smooth, or scaberulous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 10-20; digitate; in several whorls; arcuate, or flexuous; unilateral; 2-5 cm long. Central inflorescence axis 0.2-0.5 cm long. Rhachis subterete; scabrous on surface. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis; crowded; regular. Spikelets spreading; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets cuneate; laterally compressed; 1.5-2 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus bearded; obtuse.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets cuneate; laterally compressed; 1.5-2 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus bearded; obtuse.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
- Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma; gaping. Lower glume lanceolate, or ovate; 0.5-0.7 mm long; 0.5 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume primary vein scaberulous. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume obovate; 0.5-0.7 mm long; 0.66-0.75 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume primary vein scaberulous. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex acute.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
- Fertile lemma elliptic; laterally compressed; 1.5-2 mm long; cartilaginous; yellow, or light brown; keeled; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein ciliate. Lemma margins ciliate. Lemma apex obtuse; mucronate, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn subapical; 0.3-1.5 mm long overall. Apical sterile florets 1 in number; barren; orbicular; 1-1.5 mm long. Apical sterile lemmas truncate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Apical sterile lemma awns 0-1.5 mm long; 0-1 per spikelet in number.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Lodicules 2; cuneate; fleshy. Anthers 3. Stigmas 2.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; obovoid; dorsally compressed; trigonous; 0.9-1.2 mm long.
- Distribution
- North America: north-central USA, south-central USA, and Mexico.
- Reference
- Cynodonteae. Anderson.
Native to:
Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas
Introduced into:
Maine
Chloris cucullata Bisch. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 19: 357 (1853)
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.
- Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- Powell, A.M. & Worthington, R.D. (2018). Flowering plants of Trans-Pecos Texas and ajacent areas: 1-1444. BRIT Press.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Dávila, P., Mejia-Saulés, M.T., Gómez-Sánchez, N., Valdés-Reyna, J., Ortíz, J.J., Morín, C., Castrejón, J. & Ocampo, A. (2006). Catálogo de las Gramíneas de México: 1-671. CONABIO, México city.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
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GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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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
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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