Sporobolus sect. Acinifolii P. M. Peterson, Romasch. & Soreng, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16795349 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/18C55241-AAA3-5843-B483-B49D899FFF17 |
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Sporobolus sect. Acinifolii P. M. Peterson, Romasch. & Soreng |
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sect. nov. |
Sporobolus sect. Acinifolii P. M. Peterson, Romasch. & Soreng , sect. nov.
Type.
Sporobolus acinifolius Stapf , Fl. Cap. 7: 581. 1900.
Description.
Mat forming perennials with elongated and much branched or short rhizomes, innovations intravaginal. Culms 6–43 cm long with 1–5 nodes, glabrous. Leaf sheaths open for most of their length; ligules 0.2–0.3 mm long, a line of hairs; blades 0.5–12 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, flat, glabrous, apex obtuse to acuminate, occasionally with cartilaginous margins. Inflorescence a panicle 2–15 cm long, open with effuse to capillary or sometimes dichotomously branched or spiciform with loosely ascending branches. Spikelets 1–2.5 mm long, 1 - flowered, lanceolate, subterete; glumes shorter to as long as the spikelet, 1 - veined, hyaline or sometimes membranous; lower glumes 0.25–0.5 as long as upper glumes; upper glumes 0.5–1 as long as the floret, apex acute to obtuse; lemmas 1–2.5 mm long, 1 - or 3 - veined, ovate, membranous, apex obtuse to acute; paleas 2 - veined. Flowers perfect; lodicules 2; anthers 0.7–1.9 mm long; ovary glabrous. Caryopses 0.8–1.1 mm long, ellipsoid to globose, brownish with a free pericarp.
Species.
Sporobolus acinifolius , S. albicans , S. tenellus .
Distribution.
Southern Africa.
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