| Monocotyledon | Literature for Panicum tenuifolium
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Poaceae -- The Grass Family | Bibliography |
| Panicum tenuifolium | |
Common name(s): panic grass, mountain pili |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | In the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Cespitose perennials 25-120 cm tall; culms unbranched, papillose-pilose, the nodes glabrous to pilose. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves primarily cauline; sheaths papillose-pilose; ligule a ciliate membrane, 0.3-1.1 mm long, the membrane rudimentary, up to 0.2 mm long, the cilia 0.2-1.1 mm long; blades 5-20 cm long, 0.1-0.5(-0.7) cm wide, usually loosely involute, sometimes mixed involute and flattened, or entirely flattened, papillose-pilose or rarely glabrous, especially on lower surface. |
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| Flowers |
Panicles 5-30 cm long, terminal, the branches ascending to widely spreading, usually solitary, scabrid to pilose, the axils puberulent or pilose; spikelets 2.1-3.6 mm long, acute to acuminate, glabrous; glumes as long as spikelet, equal or first glume slightly longer or shorter than second glume, first glume 5-7-nerved, acuminate to acute, second glume 7-nerved, acute; first floret sterile, first lemma as long as or slightly shorter than glumes, 5-7-nerved, first palea 1/3-1/2 as long as first lemma; second floret 1.7-1.8 mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm wide, 0.4-0.8 mm shorter than first lemma, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, glossy, smooth; anthers 1-1.2 mm long. |
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