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Chloris submutica

Mexican windmill-grass
Habit Plants perennial; usually cespitose, occasionally shortly stoloniferous.
Culms

30-75 cm, erect.
Sheaths

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 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 staminate floret.
Lower glumes

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

1.7-2.3 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, ellipsoid.
2n

= ca. 65, 80.

Chloris submutica
Distribution
from FNA
NM; TX
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Discussion

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. 216.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Chloridoideae > tribe Cynodonteae > Chloris
Sibling taxa
C. andropogonoides, C. barbata, C. berroi, C. canterae, C. ciliata, C. cucullata, C. divaricata, C. elata, C. gayana, C. pectinata, C. pilosa, C. radiata, C. texensis, C. truncata, C. ventricosa, C. verticillata, C. virgata
Name authority Kunth
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