Alopecurus californicus

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• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Description

Genus Alopecurus

Annual or perennial . Leaf blades linear , flat; ligule membranous. Inflorescence a spikelike panicle, densely cylindrical, spikelets numerous , closely packed; pedicels very short, apices cuplike. Spikelets protogynous, strongly laterally compressed , floret 1, falling entire from pedicel; rachilla extension absent; glumes equal, ± equaling and enclosing floret, broadly lanceolate to oblong , membranous to thinly leathery, prominently 3-veined, strongly keeled , keel usually ciliate , infrequently winged , lower margins almost free or connate for up to half their length , apex obtuse , acute or shortly awned ; lemma broadly lanceolate to ovate , usually thinly membranous, keeled, obscurely 5-veined, smooth , glabrous , lower margins often connate, awned from lower back, apex truncate to acute; awn straight when short or geniculate when longer , column smooth, usually twisted at maturity, bristle scabrid ; palea absent or very small. Lodicules absent; ovary glabrous. Caryopsis obliquely obovate in side view ; endosperm sometimes liquid.

Between 40 and 50 species:temperate and cold regions of the N hemisphere, South America; eight species in China.[1]

Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Vasey Publication : Bull . Torrey Bot. Club xv. (1888) 13; et Grass . Pacif. Slope (1893) t. 25.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Alopecurus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 20 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

A. aequalis (Marsh Meadow-Foxtail) · A. aequalis sonomensis var. sonomensis (Sonoma Alopecurus) · A. aequalis var. aequalis (Short-Awn Meadow-Foxtail) · A. aequalis var. sonomensis (Sonoma Shortawn Foxtail) · A. alpinus (Boreal Alopecurus) · A. alpinus glaucus (Boreal Alopecurus) · A. arundinaceus (Creeping Foxtail) · A. brachystachus (Foxtail) · A. carolinianus (Carolina Foxtail) · A. creticus (Cretan Meadow Foxtail) · A. geniculatus (Marsh Meadow-Foxtail) · A. geniculatus var. geniculatus (Water Foxtail) · A. geniculatus var. microstachyus (Water Foxtail) · A. myosuroides (Blackgrass) · A. pratensis (Field Meadow-Foxtail) · A. pratensis pratensis (Field Meadow-Foxtail) · A. pratensis 'Aureus' (Gold Foxtail Grass) · A. pratensis 'Variegatus' (Variegated Foxtail Grass) · A. rendlei (Rendle's Foxtail) · A. saccatus (Pacific Foxtail)

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Further Reading

• A flora of California, by Willis Linn Jepson. San Francisco, Calif., Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 1909- url p. 113, p. 113.
• A preliminary catalogue of the flora of Vancouver and Queen Charlotte Islands. Victoria, B.C., Printed by W. H. Cullin, 1921. url p. 13.
• American plants. .. [Descriptions, bibliographical notes, synonymy, and other information, comp. from many sources] Charles Russell Orcutt, editor. San Diego, Calif., [1907]-1910. url p. 429.
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1920 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 296, p. 538.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 48 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 101, p. 106, p. 110, p. 260, p. 280, p. 51.
• Flora of southeastern Washington and adjacent Idaho, by Charles V. Piper. .. and R. Kent Beattie. .. Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New era printing company, 1914. url p. 24, p. 24.
• Flora of the northwest coast, including the area west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains, from the forty-ninth parallel south to the Calapooia Mountains on the south border of Lane County, Oregon. Lancaster, Pa., Press of the New Era Printing Company, 1915. url .
• Flora of the northwest coast: including the area west of the summit of the Cascade Mountains, from the forty-ninth parallel south to the Calapooia Mountains on the south border of Lane County, Oregon / by Charles V. Piper and R. Kent Beattie. Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New era printing company, 1915. url p. 39.
• Flora of the state of Washington / by Charles V. Piper. Washington: G.P.O., 1906 url p. 51.
• Flora of the state of Washington. By Charles V. Piper. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1906. url p. 110.
• Illustrations of North American grasses. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1891-93. url p. 97.
• Manual of the grasses of the United States / by A.S. Hitchcock. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1935. url p. 788.
• The Ottawa naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 144, p. 144.
• The flora of the Palouse region. Containing descriptions of all the Spermatophytes and Pteridophytes known to grow wild in the area within 35 kilometers of Pullman, Washington. By Charles V. Piper and R. Kent Beattie. Pullman, Washington Agricultural College and School of Science, 1901. url p. 18.
• Torreya. Burlington, Vt., Torrey Botanical Club, 1901-1945. url p. 191.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3485136
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15743331
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:387050-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 9582-2
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1116595

Footnotes

1. Sheng-lian Lu & Sylvia M. Phillips "Alopecurus". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 316, 364. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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