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Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha

Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha (Stapf ex Thell.) J.M. Black  
Family: Poaceae
Perennial Cup Grass, more...Vernal Cupgrass
[Eriochloa procera var. involucrata (Hack.) Jansen, moreEriochloa ramosa var. involucrata Hack.]
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Robert B. Shaw, Robert D. Webster, Christine M. Bern. Flora of North America

Plants perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms 40-80 cm, erect, not rooting at the lower nodes; internodes glabrous; nodes hairy. Sheaths glabrous, rarely with a few appressed hairs; collars glabrous; ligules 0.4-1 mm; blades 10-20 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, linear, flat, straight, spreading, glabrous or hairy adaxially. Panicles 5-15 cm long, 0.3-1 cm wide; rachises scabrous; branches 2-8, 25-45 mm long, 0.3-0.6 mm wide, divergent to spreading, glabrous, winged, with 2-40 spikelets in unequally pedicellate pairs at the middle of the branches; pedicels 1-3 mm, glabrous, apices hairy. Spikelets 3.6-5.4 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, lanceolate. Upper glumes 1-1.3 times as long as the lower lemmas, lanceolate, hairy, 5-veined, acuminate, awned, awns 0.5-1.5 mm; lower florets sterile; lower lemmas 3.5-5.2 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, lanceolate, setose, 5-veined, mucronate to awned; lower paleas absent; upper lemmas 2.1-3.7 mm, elliptic, apices rounded, awned, awns 0.4-0.8 mm; upper paleas indurate, blunt, not rugose. 2n = 36.

Eriochloa pseudoacrotricha is an Australian species that has been introduced into south Texas and Mississippi. It grows in waste areas.

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