Echinochloa walteri
coast barnyard grass, coast cockspur, coast cockspur grass, echinochloa de Walter, Walter's barnyard grass
(30) 50-200+ cm tall, to 2.5 cm thick;
nodes pilose or villous, upper nodes usually with sparser and shorter pubescence, occasionally glabrous.
8.5-35 cm, erect to slightly drooping, nodes hispid, hairs 3.5-5 mm, papillose-based, sometimes sparsely so, internodes usually glabrous, sometimes hispid, hairs papillose-based;
primary branches 1-10 cm, loosely erect, not concealed by the spikelets, nodes usually hispid, hairs papillose-based, sometimes glabrous, internodes scabrous, sometimes also sparsely hispid, hairs papillose-based;
secondary branches present on the longer primary branches.
3-5 mm, disarticulating at maturity, scabrous to variously muricate and hairy, hairs usually not papillose-based, margins sometimes with a few papillose-based hairs.
usually more than 1/2 as long as the spikelets, abruptly narrowing to a fine, 0.5 mm point;
lower florets sterile;
lower lemmas usually awned, awns 8-25(60) mm;
lower paleas subequal to the lower lemmas;
upper lemmas 3-5 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide, not or scarcely exceeding the upper glumes, narrowly ovate to elliptical, coriaceous portion subacute, tips acuminate, membranous, without a line of hairs at the base of the tip;
anthers 0.6-1(1.2) mm.
1.2-1.8 mm, brownish;
embryos 52-77% as long as the caryopses.
sheaths usually hispid, hairs papillose-based, sometimes just papillose;
upper sheaths hispid or glabrous;
ligules absent;
blades to 55 cm long, 10-35(60) mm wide, scabrous.
= 36.
Echinochloa walteri
Echinochloa walteri grows in wet places, often in shallow water and brackish marshes. It is a native species that extends through Mexico to Guatamala. It is found in both disturbed and undisturbed sites although not in rice fields. Occasional specimens of E. walteri with glabrous lower sheaths and short awns can be distinguished from E. crus-pavonis by their less dense panicles.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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