Acroceras munroanum
Description 2
Perennial. Culms slender, long, creeping and rooting, the erect tips 15–40 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or one margin ciliate; leaf blades lanceolate, 3–7 × 0.4–0.9 cm, glabrous or sparsely pilose, base subcordate, margins glabrous, apex acuminate; ligule ca. 0.4 mm. Panicle 4–6 × 2–3 cm; racemes 3–6, short, erect, unbranched; spikelets on short pedicels along racemes and upper part of main axis, usually paired or single toward raceme apex. Spikelets ca. 4 mm, elliptic, stramineous when mature, subglabrous; lower glume broadly ovate, ca. 3.5 mm; upper glume and lower lemma similar, as long as spikelet, 5–7-veined, apex crested, slightly protruding; lower palea hyaline, narrow; upper lemma smooth, shining, 3–3.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep–Oct. 2n = 18.
Sources and Credits
- (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10293783
- (c) Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/4990928
