Chloris cucullata |
Chloris submutica |
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hooded windmill-grass |
Mexican windmill-grass |
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Habit | Plants perennial; cespitose. | Plants perennial; usually cespitose, occasionally shortly stoloniferous. |
Culms | 15-60 cm, erect. |
30-75 cm, erect. |
Sheaths | glabrous; ligules 0.7-1 mm; blades to 20 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, without basal hairs, glabrous or scabrous, upper cauline leaves often greatly reduced. |
glabrous; ligules about 0.5 mm, shortly ciliate; blades to 20 cm long, to 5 mm wide, sometimes with long basal hairs, otherwise scabrous. |
Panicles | with 10-20 branches in several closely-spaced whorls; branches 2-5 cm, spreading, with 14-18 spikelets per cm; disarticulation beneath the glumes. |
with 5-17, evidently distinct branches in 1-3 closely-spaced whorls; branches to 7 cm, usually erect when young, spreading to reflexed at maturity, averaging 12 spikelets per cm. |
Spikelets | with 1 bisexual and 1 sterile floret. |
with 1 bisexual and 1 staminate floret. |
Lower glumes | 0.5-0.7 mm; upper glumes 1-1.5 mm; lowest lemmas 1.5-2 mm long, 0.7-1 mm wide, broadly elliptic, mostly glabrous but the keels and marginal veins appressed-pilose, obtuse, awned, awns 0.3-1.5 mm; second florets 1-1.5 mm long and about equally wide, conspicuously inflated, spherical, with the distal portion of the margins inrolled, not or inconspicuously bilobed, lobes less than 1/5 as long as the lemmas, midveins sometimes excurrent to 1.5 mm. |
1.5-3.2 mm; upper glumes 2.5-3.4 mm; lowest lemmas 2.8-3.7 mm long, 0.6-1.1 mm wide, broadly linear to elliptic, mostly glabrous but the margins appressed pubescent, apices obtuse, not conspicuously bilobed, sometimes shortly mucronate; second florets 1.4-2.2 mm long, 0.3-0.9 mm wide, usually at least twice as long as wide, not lobed, unawned, occasionally mucronate. |
Caryopses | 0.9-1.2 mm long, about 0.5 mm wide, obovoid. |
1.7-2.3 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, ellipsoid. |
2n | = 40. |
= ca. 65, 80. |
Chloris cucullata |
Chloris submutica |
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Distribution |
AR; AZ; FL; KS; ME; NM; OK; SC; TX
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NM; TX
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Discussion | Chloris cucullata is common along roadsides and in waste areas throughout much of Texas and adjacent portions of New Mexico and Mexico. Records from outside this area probably represent introductions. Chloris cucullata hybridizes with both C. andropogonoides and C. verticillata (see discussion under C. andropogonoides). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Chloris submutica grows from the southwestern United States through Mexico, Guatemala, and Colombia to Venezuela. In Mexico, it is generally found between 1000-2100 m. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 214. | FNA vol. 25, p. 216. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Chloris | Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Chloris |
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Name authority | Bisch. | Kunth |
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