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Coelorachis rugosa

Coelorachis rugosa (Nutt.) Nash  
Family: Poaceae
Wrinkled Joint-Tail Grass, more...Wrinkled Jointgrass
[Rottboellia corrugata, moreRottboellia rugosa , Rottboellia rugosa var. chapmanii]
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Charles M. Allen. Flora of North America

Plants cespitose. Culms 60-120 cm, compressed-keeled. Sheaths compressed-keeled; ligules 0.5-1 mm. Rames 3-9.5 cm; rachises distinctly indented adjacent to the sessile spikelets. Sessile spikelets 3-4 mm; lower glumes transversely rugose; upper lemmas and paleas 2-3 mm. Pedicellate spikelets 1-3 mm. Caryopses about 2 mm, broadly ellipsoid. 2n = unknown.

Coelorachis rugosa is endemic to the southeastern United States. It grows in moist to wet areas in prairies, bogs, and pine woods, especially flatwoods and savannahs.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Culms 6-10 dm, usually branched above; sheaths overlapping, narrowly but sharply keeled; blades usually folded, 4-8 mm wide; racemes slender; 3-8 cm, exserted or partly included in the subtending sheath; sessile spikelet 4-5 mm, usually surpassing the adjacent internode; its first glume coarsely transversely wrinkled on the back, narrowly 2-winged toward the summit, often notched; sterile spikelet 3-4 mm, often divaricate when dry, together with its pedicel (2-3 mm) conspicuously exceeding the fertile one. Wet pine-barrens; s. N.J. to Fla. and Tex. (Manisuris r.; Rottboellia r.)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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