Bromus porteri |
Bromus arenarius |
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nodding brome, Porter brome, Porter's brome |
Australian brome, Australian chess |
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Habit | Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. | Plants annual. |
Culms | 30-100 cm, erect; nodes (2)3-4(5), glabrous or pubescent; internodes mostly glabrous, puberulent near the nodes. |
20-40 cm, erect to ascending. |
Sheaths | glabrous or pilose, midrib of the culm leaves not abruptly narrowed just below the collar; auricles absent; ligules to 2.5 mm, glabrous, truncate or obtuse, erose or lacerate; blades (3)10-25(35) cm long, 2-5(6) mm wide, flat, not glaucous, both surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes the adaxial surface pilose. |
densely retorsely pilose; ligules 1.5-2.5 mm, glabrous or pilose, obtuse, lacerate; blades 7-8 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, pilose on both surfaces. |
Panicles | 7-20 cm, open, nodding, often 1-sided; branches slender, ascending to spreading, often recurved and flexuous. |
(4)10-15 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, open, nodding; branches sometimes longer than the spikelets, spreading or ascending, sinuous. |
Spikelets | 12-38 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with (3)5-11(13) florets. |
10-20 mm, lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed; florets 5-9(11), bases concealed at maturity; rachilla internodes concealed at maturity. |
Glumes | usually pubescent, rarely glabrous; lower glumes 5-7(9) mm, usually 3-veined, sometimes 1-veined; upper glumes 6-10 mm, 3-veined, not mucronate; lemmas 8-14 mm, elliptic, rounded over the midvein, usually pubescent or pilose, margins often with longer hairs, backs and margins rarely glabrous, apices acute or obtuse to truncate, entire; awns (1)2-3(3.5) mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers (1)2-3 mm. |
densely pilose; lower glumes 7-10 mm, 3-veined; upper glumes 8-12 mm, (5)7-veined; lemmas 9-11(13) mm long, 1-1.8 mm wide, lanceolate, densely pilose, distinctly 7-veined, rounded over the midvein, margins rounded, not inrolled at maturity, apices acute, bifid, teeth shorter than 1 mm; awns 10-16 mm, straight to weakly spreading, arising 1.5 mm or more below the lemma apices; anthers 0.7-1 mm. |
Caryopses | equaling or shorter than the paleas, thin, weakly inrolled. |
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2n | = 14. |
= unknown. |
Bromus porteri |
Bromus arenarius |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; SD; TX; UT; WY; MB; SK
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AZ; CA; NV; OR; PA
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Discussion | Bromus porteri grows in montane meadows, grassy slopes, mesic steppes, forest edges, and open forest habitats, at 500-3500 m. It is found from British Columbia to Manitoba, and south to California, western Texas, and Mexico. It is closely related to B. anomalus, and has often been included in that species. It differs chiefly in its lack of auricles, and in having culm leaves with midribs that are not narrowed just below the collar. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Bromus arenarius grows in dry, often sandy slopes, fields, and waste places. Native to Australia, it is now widely scattered throughout California, and is also recorded from Oregon, eastern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Pennsylvania. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 24, p. 213. | FNA vol. 24, p. 235. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Bromeae > Bromus > sect. Bromopsis | Poaceae > subfam. Pooideae > tribe Bromeae > Bromus > sect. Bromus |
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Synonyms | Bromopsis ported | |
Name authority | (J.M. Coult.) Nash | Labill. |
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