Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Lycurus phalaroides H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 142. 1815
Muhlenbergia lycuroides Vasey; Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2; 239. 1896. (Type from Guadalaiara
Mexico. Palmer 4Sff in ISS6). Lycurus phleoides var. brevifolius Beal, Grasses N. Am. 2: 271. 1896. (Specimens cited from
Orizaba and Guadalajara, Mexico.)
Culms cespitose, decumbent-spreading, several-noded, compressed, more or less scaberulous especially about the nodes, 15-40 cm. long, producing numerous short leafy fascicled branches at all or many of the nodes; sheaths keeled, scaberulous, scabrous, or scabrouspubescent, mostly shorter than the internodes; ligule less than 0.5 mm. long, usually not noticeable from side view; blades flat or often more or less folded, scaberulous to pubescent on both surfaces, scabrous on the thickened cartilaginous margin, mostly less than 5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; panicles terminating the culms and branches, slender, compact, pale, greenish or plumbeous, 2-7 cm. long, about 5 mm. thick; first glume I-awned or with a small lateral one; second glume 1-awned; lemma a little longer than the glumes, the body about 3 mm. long, pilose, the awn 2-3 mm. long.
Type locality: Michoacan, Mexico.
Distribution: Rocky hills and plains, Coahuila to Chiapas; also in southern South America.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Spear Hitchcock, Jason Richard Swallen, Agnes Chase. 1939. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(8). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY