Overview
Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Browne's Lovegrass, Cuming's Lovegrass, Cumings Lovegrass
Description
Genus Eragrostis
Annual
or perennial
, often glandular
particularly on the leaf sheaths
and inflorescence. Leaf blades mostly flat, sometimes rolled, rarely pungent
; ligule a line
of hairs
or sometimes membranous. Inflorescence an open, contracted
, spiciform
or glomerate
panicle, very rarely of racemes
on a central axis. Spikelets
2- to many-flowered, laterally compressed
, orbicular
to vermiform
, variously disarticulating
. Glumes
unequal, deciduous or persistent
, 1(-3) -veined. Lemmas membranous to coriaceous
, keeled
or rounded
, glabrous
to asperulous
or rarely hairy
, 3-veined or the veins sometimes very faint and occasionally suppressed
, apex entire, obtuse
to acuminate, rarely mucronate
. Palea keels sometimes winged
or ciliate
. Stamens 2 or 3. Fruit mostly globose
, ellipsoid
, or rectangular-prismatic, usually a caryopsis but sometimes the pericarp free
.
About 350 species: tropics and subtropics throughout the world; 32 species (11 endemic, one introduced
) in China.[1]
Physical Description
Species Eragrostis cumingii
Annual to perennial . Culms erect , tufted , slender, usually with scaly buds at base , glabrous , 20-70 cm tall, 1-1.5 mm in diam., 3-4-noded. Leaf sheaths compressed at base, glabrous, long pilose along summit; ligules 0.1-0.3 mm, fimbriate; leaf blades involute , 5-19 × 0.1-0.2 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, but long pilose at base of adaxial surface. Panicle open, 8-30 × 4-8 cm; branches solitary, naked at lower part, glabrous in axils. Spikelets yellowish green or gray-green, narrowly oblong , 5-20 × 2-2.5 mm, 8-40-flowered, pedicels without glands . Glumes chartaceous , deltoid-oblong, easily falling off when mature , lower glume 1-veined, ca. 1 mm, upper glume 1-3-veined, ca. 1.3 mm. Lemmas broadly ovate , lateral veins nearly parallel, lower lemma ca. 2 mm. Palea chartaceous, oblanceolate , persistent or tardily deciduous, strongly 2-keeled, along keels ciliolate . Anthers ca. 0.2 mm. Caryopsis elliptical , terete to laterally flattened, 0.8-1 mm. Fl. and fr. Sep-Oct. [source]
Habit: Graminoid
Size/Age/Growth
Size: 12-18" tall.
Habitat
Roadsides, fields [2].
Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,701 meters (0 to 15,423 feet).[3]
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Annual , Perennial
Growth
Culture: Space 15-18" apart.
Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Sun to Partial Shade.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Juncanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Poales
()
- Small, 1903
- Family:
Gramineae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
()
- Tribe:
Eragrostideae
()
- Subtribe:
Eleusininae
()
- Genus:
Eragrostis
()
- N.M. Wolf, 1776
- Lovegrass
- Specific epithet:
cumingii
- Steud.
- Botanical name: - Eragrostis cumingii Steud.
- Specific epithet:
cumingii
- Steud.
- Genus:
Eragrostis
(
- Subtribe:
Eleusininae
(
- Tribe:
Eragrostideae
(
- Subfamily:
Chloridoideae
(
- Family:
Gramineae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Juncanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
E. reflexa Hackel. • Eragrostis brownei (Kunth Ex Chapman) Nees Ex Steud. • Eragrostis bulbillifera Steudel • Eragrostis simplex Scribn.
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Eragrostis
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 87 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
E. airoides (Darnel Love Grass) · E. atropioides (Hard-Stem Lovegrass) · E. atrovirens (Thalia Lovegrass) · E. bahiensis (Bahia Lovegrass) · E. barrelieri (Mediterranean Lovegrass) · E. capillaris (Lace Grass) · E. chloromelas (Narrow Curly Leaf) · E. cilianensis (Candy Grass) · E. ciliaris (Gophertail Love-Grass) · E. ciliaris brachystachya (Gophertail Lovegrass) · E. ciliaris var. brachystachya (Gophertail Lovegrass) · E. ciliaris var. ciliaris (Gophertail Lovegrass) · E. ciliaris var. laxa (Gophertail Lovegrass) · E. cumingii (Browne's Lovegrass) · E. curtipedicellata (Gummy Lovegrass) · E. curvula (Weeping Love Grass) · E. cylindriflora (Cylinderflower Lovegrass) · E. deflexa (Pacific Lovegrass) · E. echinochloidea (African Lovegrass) · E. elliottii (Blue Eros) · E. elliottii 'Wind Dancer' (Wind Dancer Field Lovegrass) · E. elongata (Long Lovegrass) · E. erosa (Chihuahua Lovegrass) · E. fosbergii (Fosberg's Love Grass) · E. frankii (Frank's Love-Grass) · E. gangetica (Slim Flower Love Grass) · E. glutinosa (Sticky Lovegrass) · E. grandis (Large Hawai'i Lovegrass) · E. hirsuta (Big-Top Lovegrass) · E. hispida (Broad-Leaved Zimbabwe Lovegrass) · E. hypnoides (Creeping Eragrostis) · E. intermedia (Plains Lovegrass) · E. japonica (Pond Lovegrass) · E. laxa (Gophertail Lovegrass) · E. lehmanniana (Lehmann Lovegrass) · E. leptophylla (Mountain Love Grass) · E. leptostachya (Australian Lovegrass) · E. lugens (Mourning Lovegrass) · E. lutescens (Six-Weeks Lovegrass) · E. mauiensis (Maui Love Grass) · E. mexicana (Mexican Lovegrass) · E. mexicana mexicana (New Mexico Lovegrass) · E. mexicana virescens (Mexican Lovegrass) · E. minor (Little Love Grass) · E. monticola (Kalamalo) · E. obtusiflora (Alkali Lovegrass) · E. palmeri (Rio Grande Love-Grass) · E. paradoxa (Fine-Leaved Zimbabwe Lovegrass) · E. parviflora (Smallflower Lovegrass) · E. paupera (Oahu Lovegrass) · E. paupera macradenia var. macradenia (Oahu Lovegrass) · E. pectinacea (Purple Love Grass) · E. pectinacea var. miserrima (Desert Lovegrass) · E. pectinacea var. pectinacea (Purple Love Grass) · E. pectinacea var. tracyi (Sanibel Island Lovegrass) · E. pilosa (India Love-Grass) · E. pilosa var. pilosa (India Lovegrass) · E. plana (South African Lovegrass) · E. polytricha (Hairysheath Lovegrass) · E. prolifera (Dominican Lovegrass) · E. refracta (Coastal Lovegrass) · E. rigidior (Curlyleaf) · E. scaligera (Tender Lovegrass) · E. secundiflora (Red Lovegrass) · E. sessilispica (Tumble Lovegrass) · E. setifolia (Bristleleaf Lovegrass) · E. silveana (Silveus Lovegrass) · E. spectabilis (Petticoat-Climber) · E. spicata (Spike Lovegrass) · E. suaveolens (Candy Lovegrass) · E. superba (Wilman Lovegrass) · E. swallenii (Swallen's Lovegrass) · E. tef (Annual Bunch Grass) · E. tenella (Japanese Lovegrass) · E. tenuifolia (Elastic Grass) · E. trichocolea (Hairy-Sheath Lovegrass) · E. trichocolea var. floridana (Hairysheath Lovegrass) · E. trichocolea var. trichocolea (Hairysheath Lovegrass) · E. trichodes (Sand Lovegrass) · E. trichodes var. trichodes (Sand Lovegrass) · E. trichoides (Sand Love Grass) · E. trichophora (Hairyflower Lovegrass) · E. unioloides (Chinese Love Grass) · E. urbaniana (Urban's Lovegrass) · E. variabilis (Kawelu) · E. viscosa (Sticky Love Grass) · E. von (Lovegrass)
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Further Reading
- An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants, Manila, Bureau of Printing, 1922-26. url p. 89.
- Botanical publications of E.D. Merrill. [New York, etc., 1899- url p. 89.
- Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 74.
- Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 100, p. 110, p. 526, p. 85, p. 88.
- National list of scientific plant names. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, 1982- url p. 155, p. 156.
- Species Blancoanae: a critical revision of the Philippine species of plants described by Blanco and by Llanos /by E.D. Merrill. 1918 Manila: Bureau of Printing, 1918. url p. 74.
- The Philippine journal of science. 1 Suppl. 1906 Manila. url p. 384.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- "Eragrostis cumingii". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 471, 472, 475. Published by Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 10, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 10, 2007:
- Australian National Herbarium
- , Australian National Herbarium
- Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
- Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
- National Herbarium of New South Wales, Plants of Papua New Guinea
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2660995
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-40776
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13819894
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:400987-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 40776
- MoBot NameID: 25511972
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PMPOA2K090
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERSI7
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 37574
Footnotes
- Shou-liang Chen & Paul M. Peterson "Eragrostis". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 458, 471, 479, 480. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- "Eragrostis cumingii". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 471, 472, 475. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Mean = 268.650 meters (881.398 feet), Standard Deviation = 490.580 based on 59,134 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
