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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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Genus
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CINNA
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 5. 1753.
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Synonym
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Abola Adans. Fam. P1. 2:31, 511. 1763. Cinnastrum Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:90. 1886.
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Description
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Spikelets 1-flowered, disarticulating below the glumes, falling entire; glumes equal, 1-nerved, about as long as the floret; rachilla forming a stipe below the floret, produced beyond the palea as a minute bristle; lemma similar to the glumes, 3-nerved, bearing a minute awn just below the apex; palea a little shorter than the lemma, apparently 1-keeled.
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Note
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Slender to rather coarse perennials with flat blades and open, loose, drooping panicles.
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Species
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CINNA POAEFORMIS
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PlaceOfPublication
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U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 24:21. 1901.
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Synonym
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Deyeuxia poaeformis H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:146. 1815. Poa subuniflora Kunth, Rev. Gram. 115. 1829. Cinnastrum poaeforine Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:91. 18 86. Cinnastrum miliaceum Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:91. 1886.
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Description
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Erect perennial; culms slender to rather coarse, 80 cm. to more than 2 m. high; sheaths glabrous, shorter than the internodes; ligule 5-15 mm. long, thin, lacerate; blades 10-30 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, flat, acuminate, glabrous or scaberulous, the margins finely scabrous; panicles 15-40 cm. long, the slender drooping branches in distant verticils, naked in the lower half, some of them often as much as 15 cm. long; spikelets somewhat densely clustered, short-pedicellate, 2.5-2.8 mm. long; glumes usually very scabrous; awn of lemma obscure; rudiment slender, glabrous.
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Distribution
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Moist thickets, forests, and banks, Mexico to Peru.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUf: Volcan de Chiriqui, Hitchcock 82i5; Killip 4547
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