Bouteloua aristidoides

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• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Genus Bouteloua

Annuals or perennials . Culms mostly tufted . Leaf blades narrow; ligule a line of hairs . Inflorescence of racemes inserted singly along an axis; racemes unilateral , 1-80, short, deciduous or persistent ; spikelets sessile, few to numerous , biseriate , sometimes pectinate ; rachis narrow, flat, ending in a straight or forked point . Spikelets subterete or laterally compressed , fertile floret 1, usually 2nd sterile floret present, rarely this reduced to a rachilla extension ; glumes unequal, narrow, membranous, 1-veined, keeled , acuminate to awn-pointed; lemma of fertile floret ± as long as upper glume, rounded or keeled on back, thinly leathery, 3-veined, veins excurrent into 3 short awns , central awn sometimes flanked by 2 teeth, less often apex simply acute; palea veins sometimes excurrent; sterile floret variable within a species or even an individual specimen, usually lemma body reduced and prominently awned . Caryopsis ellipsoid . x = 7, 10.

About 40 species: Canada to Argentina, centered on Mexico; two species (both introduced ) in China.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,086 meters (0 to 6,844 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Atheropogon aristidioides (Kunth) Roem. & Schult. • Dinebra aristidoides Kunth • Eutriana aristidoides (Kunth) Trin.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Similar Species

Members of the genus Bouteloua

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. americana (American Grama) · B. aristidoides (Needle Grama) · B. aristidoides var. aristidoides (Needle Grama) · B. aristidoides var. arizonica (Arizona Needle Grama) · B. barbata (Six Weeks Gramma) · B. breviseta (Chino Grama) · B. chondrosioides (Spruce-Top Gramma) · B. curtipendula (Side-Oats Grama) · B. curtipendula var. caespitosa (Sideoats Grama) · B. curtipendula var. curtipendula (Side-Oats Grama) · B. dactyloides (Buffalograss) · B. eludens (Santa Rita Grama) · B. eriopoda (Black Grama) · B. gracilis (Blue Grama) · B. gracilis 'Hachita' (Blue Grama Grass) · B. hirsuta (Hairy Grama) · B. hirsuta var. hirsuta (Hairy Grama) · B. hirsuta var. pectinata (Tall Grama) · B. juncea (Lamilla) · B. kayi (Kay Grama) · B. parryi (Parry Grama) · B. radicosa (Purple Grama) · B. ramosa (Chino Grama) · B. repens (Slender Grama) · B. rigidiseta (Texas Grama) · B. rothrockii (Rothrock Grama) · B. simplex (Mat Grama) · B. stricta (Plants) · B. trifida (Red Grama) · B. trifida var. burkii (Red Grama) · B. trifida var. trifida (Red Grama) · B. uniflora (Nealley Grama) · B. warnockii (Warnock Grama)

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Further Reading

• A flora of California, by Willis Linn Jepson. San Francisco, Calif., Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 1909- url p. 136.
• American grasses / Washington: Gov. Print. Off., 1897-1901. url p. 214, p. 340.
• American grasses / by F. Lamson-Scribner. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Agrontology, 1897- url p. 214, p. 214, p. 340.
• American grasses. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1900. url p. 314.
• An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1923-[60] url p. 176, p. 177.
• Bio-ecology, by Frederic E. Clements. .. and Victor E. Shelford. .. New York, J. Wiley & Sons, inc.;1939. url p. 283.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 7 1906 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 14, p. 320, p. 625, p. 74, p. 867, p. 985.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1913. url p. 11, p. 16, p. 25, p. 28, p. 32, p. 59, p. 61.
• Bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Agrostology. Washington, D.C.: The Division, 1895-1901. url p. 214, p. 25, p. 336, p. 50, p. 51, p. 65.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1971- url p. 99.
• Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 29 1902 New York: Torrey Botanical Club, 1870-1996 url plate 293, plate 294.
• Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [Washington, D.C.?]: Supt. of Docs., G.P.O., 1913-1923. url , , , p. 11, p. 14, p. 20, p. 21, p. 26, p. 8.
• Bulletin. Bureau of Plant Industry. U. S. Department of Agriculture. 1901-13. WashingtonGovt. Print. Off. url p. 21, p. 26, p. 52.
• Carnegie Institution of Washington publication. Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1902- url , p. 176, p. 19, p. 22, p. 303, p. 41.
• Circular / United States Department of Agriculture, Division of Agrostology. Washington, D.C.: The Division, 1895-1901. url p. 7.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 1 1890-1895 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 115, p. 119, p. 134, p. 17, p. 21, p. 221, p. 25, p. 335, p. 337, p. 344, p. 346, p. 347, p. 349, p. 396, p. 397, p. 416, p. 417, p. 425, p. 533, p. 57, p. 67, plate 77, p. 86, p. XIII, p. XIV.
• Contributions from the University of Michigan Herbarium. 9 1966 Ann Arbor: University Herbarium, University of Michigan, 1939- url p. 54, p. 87.
• Experiment station record. Washington: G.P.O., 1889-1946. url p. 259, p. 34.
• Flora of New Mexico / by E.O. Wooton and Paul C. Standley. Washington: G.P.O., 1915. url p. 86.
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• Flora of Peru... by J. Francis Macbride. 13 1936 Chicago, 1936- url p. 194.
• Grasses of North America / by W.J. Beal. New York: H. Holt, 1887-1896. url p. 84.
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• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 12 1981 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 86.
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Notes

Contributors

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

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, The Deaver Herbarium, Northern Arizona University
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
• Utah State University, USU-UTC Specimen Database
• Utah Valley State College
• , Utah Valley State College Herbarium

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2661506
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-41497
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13753986
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:392761-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 403080
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 41497
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PMPOA10020
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: BOAR
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 24786

Footnotes

1. Bi-xing Sun & Sylvia M. Phillips "Bouteloua". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 488, 494. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 977.930 meters (3,208.432 feet), Standard Deviation = 741.990 based on 185 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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