Bouteloua aristidoides |
Bouteloua uniflora |
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needle grama |
Neally's grama, oneflower grama |
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Habit | Plants annual; tufted. | Plants perennial; cespitose, without rhizomes or stolons. | ||||
Culms | 4-60 cm, outer culms of a tuft decumbent, sometimes geniculate, branched at the lower nodes. |
20-60 cm, stiffly erect, glabrous. |
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Sheaths | mostly glabrous, a few long hairs present near the ligules; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, of hairs; blades 6-16 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, involute when dry, glabrous, bases usually with papillose-based hairs on the margins. |
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Panicles | 2.5-10.5 cm, with (1)4-15 branches; branches 5-45 mm, deciduous, densely pubescent (at least basally), with 2-10 spikelets per branch, axes extending 2-10 mm beyond the base of the terminal spikelets, apices entire; disarticulation at the base of the branches, the break forming a sharp tip. |
5-10(14) cm, with 15-70 branches; branches 5-9 mm, deciduous, scabrous, with 1 spikelet (lower branches occasionally with 2 spikelets), axes extending 3-4 mm beyond the terminal spikelets, apices entire; disarticulation at the base of the branches. |
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Spikelets | appressed. |
appressed, with 1 bisexual and 0-1 rudimentary florets. |
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Glumes | acute to slightly cleft and minutely apiculate, midveins usually scabrous; lower glumes 2.5-4 mm; upper glumes 6.2-8 mm, mostly smooth, midveins usually scabrous; lowest lemmas 6-7.5 mm, acute or minutely cleft, glabrous, unawned, sometimes mucronate; lowest paleas unawned, glabrous; anthers 2.5-3 mm, bright yellow; second florets absent or reduced to 1 or 3 short awns, glabrous. |
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Caryopses | 2.5-3 mm. |
about 3 mm. |
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Ligules | 0.2-0.5 mm, membranous, lacerate or ciliate; blades 2-5(9) cm long, 0.7-2 mm wide, flat or folded, adaxial surfaces sometimes with papillose-based hairs, margins usually with papillose-based hairs near the ligules. |
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Proximal | spikelet on each branch with 1 floret; lower glumes 1.5-3.5 mm, glabrous, narrow to subulate; upper glumes 5.5-6.2 mm, densely pubescent, at least on the basal 1/2; lemmas 5.8-6 mm, acuminate, unawned; lowest paleas almost as long as the lemmas, bifid, glabrous; rachillas prolonged beyond the florets for about 0.5 mm. |
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Distal | spikelets with 1 bisexual and 1 rudimentary floret, glumes unequal, glabrous, minutely scabrous on the keels; narrowly acute or acuminate; lower glumes 1.5-2 mm; upper glumes 5-6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent basally, often divergent; lowest lemmas 6-8 mm, veins pubescent, lateral veins excurrent as short (to 1 mm) awns, acuminate, midvein extended into a setaceous tip or a short awn; lowest paleas 5-7 mm, bifid, veins often excurrent as short awns; anthers about 2.5 mm, yellow or yellow and red; distal florets reduced to a pubescent, 3-awned, awn column, awns 2-7 mm, exserted. |
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2n | = 40. |
= 20. |
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Bouteloua aristidoides |
Bouteloua uniflora |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; MD; NM; NV; TX; UT
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TX |
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Discussion | There are two varieties, both of which grow in the Flora region. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Bouteloua uniflora grows primarily in fertile, rocky, limestone soils of Texas and adjacent Coahuila, Mexico at 300-1000 m. A disjunct collection has been reported from Zion National Park, Utah. Plants in the Flora region belong to Bouteloua uniflora Vasey var. uniflora, which differs from B. uniflora var. coahuilensis Gould & Kapadia in having taller (40-60 cm, not 20-40 cm) leafy, rather than scapose, culms, longer leaf blades (12-16 cm versus 6-12 cm), and 50-70, rather than 15-40, panicle branches. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 255. | FNA vol. 25, p. 255. | ||||
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Bouteloua > subg. Bouteloua | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Bouteloua > subg. Bouteloua | ||||
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Name authority | (Kunth) Griseb. | Vasey | ||||
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