| Monocotyledon | Literature for Sacciolepis indica
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2019. |
| Poaceae -- The Grass Family | Bibliography |
| Sacciolepis indica | |
Common name(s): Glenwood grass |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to the Paleotropics.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Annual or perennial, ± weakly rhizomatous; culms tufted, decumbent,
branching from base, 15‒50 cm long,
slender, glabrous. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves usually near base of culm; sheath glabrous, shorter than internodes; ligule membranous, 0.1‒0.3 mm long; blade 3‒10 cm long, 2‒4 mm wide, glabrous. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences 1.5‒7 cm long, usually less than 5 mm in in diameter, often tinged purple, peduncle slender, 10‒23 cm long, often constituting more than ½ the height of the plant. Spikelets pedicellate, strongly imbricate and concealing the rachis; first glume
ovate, boat-shaped, 1.1‒1.5 mm long,
5-veined, second glume boat-shaped,
2.5‒2.8 mm long, 7-veined, apex blunt;
first floret sterile, biconvex, 2.5‒2.8 mm long, glumes striate, first lemma similar to glumes, saccate at base, 7‒9-veined, concealing a narrow, stiff palea ca. 1 mm long; second floret fertile, second lemma chartaceous, narrowly ovate, ca. 1.5 mm long, smooth, lustrous, veins obscure, apex acute; palea nearly as long as lemma. |
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| Fruit |
Caryopsis brown, ovoid, slightly compressed, ca. 1 mm long. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 18. 36 |
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| Contributor |
Nancy Khan |