Comments
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This is a weedy species recognizable by its short, broad, usually softly hairy leaf blades and secund racemes of rather small spikelets.
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Description
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Annuals; culm slender, usually decumbent and and branching below, 10-35 cm tall, nodes more or
less pubescent. Blades ovate-lanceolate, subcordate, 3-5 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, densely pubescent on
both surfaces, one of margins undulate, other side pectinate-scabrous. Inflorescence of racemose
racemes, racemes 4-8, 4-6 cm long; rachis more or less villose, scabrous on ridges; pedicels pubescent
and bearing stiff hairs as much as 0.5 mm long. Spikelets tomentose, light green but turning light yellow
when mature, 2.2-2.5 mm long; lower glume 3-veined, ca. 1/2 as long as spikelet, triangular, acute to
obtuse; upper glume and lower lemma equal, acute, 5-7-veined; lower lemma 5-veined, mucronate,
enclosing a well developed palea; upper lemma pale, elliptic, mucronate, longitudinally striate and
minutely papillose-rugose; anther ca. 1.1 mm long.
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Description
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Annual. Culms loosely tufted, slender, usually decumbent and branching below, 10–40(–50) cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or pubescent, especially along margins and mouth; leaf blades broadly lanceolate, 1–4 × 0.3–1 cm, both surfaces glabrous to densely pubescent, base rounded or subcordate, margins cartilaginous, scabrous, apex acute; ligule ciliate. Inflorescence axis 3–7 cm; racemes 4–8, (1–)3–6 cm, secund, ascending; rachis triquetrous, ± villous; spikelets mostly single. Spikelets elliptic, 2–2.7 mm, without a stipe, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes transversely bearded below apex, acute or subacute; lower glume 1/3–1/2 spikelet length, clasping, 3-veined, acute; upper glume separated from lower by a slight internode, 5-veined; upper lemma striate and transversely rugulose, apex acute to minutely mucronate. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 36.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Mountain or hill slopes, fields, roadsides, other weedy or grassy places. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa].
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Synonym
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Panicum villosum Lam., Tabl. Encycl. 1: 173. 1791.
Urochloa villosa (Lam.) T.-Q. Nguyen, Novosti Sist. Vyss. Rast. 13: 14. 1966; Veldkamp, Blumea 41: 431.
1996.
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Physical Description
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Annuals, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stems trailing, spreading or prostrate, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems geniculate, decumbent, or lax, sometimes rooting at nodes, Stems mat or turf forming, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stems branching above base or distally at nodes, Stem nodes bearded or hairy, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base , Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath hairy, hispid or prickly, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blades more or less hairy, Ligule present, Ligule a fringed, ciliate, or lobed membrane, Ligule a fringe of hairs, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence with 2-10 branches, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Inflorescence branches 1-sided, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets pedicellate, Spikelets sessile or subsessile, Spikelets dorsally compressed or terete, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets with 2 florets, Spikelet with 1 fertile floret and 1-2 sterile florets, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating below th e glumes, Spikelets secund, in rows on one side of rachis, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glumes equal to or longer than adjacent lemma, Glume surface hairy, villous or pilose, Glumes 3 nerved, Glumes 4-7 nerved, Lemma coriaceous, firmer or thicker in texture than the glumes, Lemma becoming indurate, enclosing palea and caryopsis, Lemma 3 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma rugose, with cross wrinkles, or roughened, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma mucronate, very shortly beaked or awned, less than 1-2 mm, Lemma awns straight or curved to base, Lemma straight, Palea present, well developed, Palea longer than lemma, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis.