Family:
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus:
Echinochloa P.Beauv.

Echinochloa paludigena Wiegand

This species is accepted, and its native range is Florida.

[GB]
Morphology General Habit
Annual; culms solitary. Culms erect; 100-150 cm long. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Ligule absent. Leaf-blades 15-60 cm long; 8-20 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface scabrous; rough adaxially; glabrous. Leaf-blade margins scabrous.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 10-20; borne along a central axis; unilateral; 2-14 cm long; with branchlets at base of longer racemes. Central inflorescence axis 15-40 cm long. Rhachis subterete. Spikelet packing 4 -rowed. Raceme-bases brief; pilose. Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets pedicelled; subequal. Pedicels unequal.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets ovate; dorsally compressed; cuspidate; 4.2-4.5 mm long; 2.4-2.6 mm wide; falling entire.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets ovate; dorsally compressed; cuspidate; 4.2-4.5 mm long; 2.4-2.6 mm wide; falling entire.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes dissimilar; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume ovate; clasping; 0.5 length of spikelet; without keels; 3 -veined. Lower glume surface hispidulous. Lower glume apex cuspidate. Upper glume elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 5 -veined. Upper glume surface hispidulous. Upper glume apex cuspidate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Basal sterile florets male; with palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret similar to upper glume; elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; 5 -veined; hispidulous; acuminate; awned. Awn of lower sterile floret 1-15 mm long. Fertile lemma ovate; 4-4.2 mm long; indurate; much thinner above; shiny; without keel. Lemma margins involute. Lemma apex cuspidate; laterally pinched. Palea reflexed at apex; indurate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Anthers 3; 1.2-1.7 mm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; 1.5-1.8 mm long. Embryo 0.8 length of caryopsis.
Distribution
North America: southeast USA.
Reference
Paniceae. Gould 1994.

Native to:

Florida

Echinochloa paludigena Wiegand appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Fredholm, A. [6390], Florida K000958841 Yes

First published in Rhodora 23: 64 (1921)

Accepted by

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS E-F: 1-50919.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2003). Flora of North America North of Mexico 25: 1-781. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • 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