| Monocotyledon | Literature for Polypogon monspeliensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Poaceae -- The Grass Family | Bibliography |
| Polypogon monspeliensis | |
Common name(s): beardgrass, Montpelier beardgrass, rabbitfoot grass |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Europe.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Annuals; culms tufted, often decumbent at base and rooting at nodes, 0.3-4(-8) dm tall. |
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| Leaves |
Sheaths smooth to scaberulous; ligule 2-6(-12) mm long, puberulent, apex acute, lacerate, lateral margins splitting into auricle-like segments; blades usually flat, 1.5-5(-12) mm wide, glabrous to scaberulous. |
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| Flowers |
Panicles 1-6.5(-10) cm long, compact, branches short, appressed to ascending; glumes subequal, narrowly elliptic, 1.5-2.5 mm long, keel and margins scabrous to hispidulous, especially toward base, awned from between rounded lobes of a bifid apex, the awn (4-)4.5-9.5(-10) mm long; lemma ca. 1/2 the length of the glumes, 0.7-1.2 mm long, ovate, smooth and glossy, apex minutely bifid, awn absent or very short and straight; palea nearly as long as lemma. |
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| Fruit |
Caryopsis pale brown, fusiform to narrowly ovoid, 0.8-1 mm long. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 14, 28, 35 |
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