Brachyelytrum erectum
bearded shorthusk, Brachyelytrum dresse, long-awn wood grass, southern long-awn wood grass, southern shorthusk
34-102 cm long, 0.7-1.4 mm thick, erect;
nodes densely pilose;
lowest internodes mostly glabrous, usually retrorsely pubescent near the nodes.
hispid;
ligules of middle and upper cauline blades 2-3.5 mm, truncate to acute, lacerate or erose;
blades 8.8-17.5 cm long, (9)11-17(20) mm wide, abaxial surfaces pilose on the veins and often between the veins, adaxial surfaces glabrous or slightly hispid, margins scabrous, with (2)5-11(14) prickles and 0-2(14) macrohairs per mm.
(5.5)9.1-14.3(18.5) cm.
, including the awns, (25)29-36(42) mm.
(0.1)0.3-0.7(1.1) mm, sometimes absent;
upper glumes (0.2)0.9-3.5(7) mm, sometimes aristate;
calluses hairy, hairs 0.2-0.5 mm;
lemmas 9-13 mm long, 0.8-1.7 mm wide, veins hispid, hairs 0.2-0.9 mm, midveins more prominent than the lateral veins;
awns 13-17(20) mm;
paleas 7-12 mm;
anthers 3.5-6 mm.
5.5-7.5 mm.
= 22.
Brachyelytrum erectum
Brachyelytrum erectum grows in woodlands, occasionally over limestone bedrock, and in moist woods and forests. It extends from Lake of the Woods, Ontario, east to Newfoundland, and in the United States from Minnesota to New England and south to the Gulf Coast and Florida.
Koyama and Kawano (1964), among others, treated Brachyelytrum erectum var. glabratum (Vasey) T. Koyama & Kawano as the northern taxon B. aristosum, but the holotype of B. erectum var. glabratum belongs to B. erectum sensu stricto. This means that, nomenclaturally, B. erectum var. glabratum is a synonym of B. erectum, although most of the specimens identified as var. glabratum belong to B. aristosum.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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