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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Ischaemum, Paddle Grass, Reh Padil
Common Names in Informal Latinized N:
Ischaemum
Common Names in Kosraean:
Mah
Description
Genus Ischaemum
Perennial
, or sometimes annual
. Culms
often decumbent
and much branched. Leaf blades
linear
to lanceolate, narrowed to ligule, sometimes pseudopetiolate; ligule membranous; sheath
auricles
often present. Inflorescence of paired
racemes
, or occasionally subdigitate, terminal
and axillary
, exserted or sometimes supported by a spatheole
; racemes 1-sided, when paired often locked back to back and appearing as a single cylindrical raceme, spikelets
of a pair similar or not; rachis internodes and pedicels stoutly linear to thickly clavate
, U-shaped or triquetrous
in cross
section
. Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed
; callus truncate
or obtuse
, inserted
into hollowed internode apex; lower glume
papery
to leathery, shallowly convex
or almost flat, 2-keeled or rounded
on flanks, sometimes winged
, often rugose
; upper glume boat-shaped, awnless or with straight awn
from apex; lower floret male, well developed with palea; upper lemma usually deeply 2-lobed, awned
from sinus
, rarely awnless; awn geniculate, glabrous
. Pedicelled spikelet as large as sessile or much smaller, upper lemma sometimes geniculately awned.
About 70 species: throughout the tropics but mainly in Asia, especially India; 12 species (one endemic) in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Graminoid
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:
Panicoideae
()
- Tribe:
Andropogoneae
()
- Subtribe:
Ischaeminae
()
- Genus:
Ischaemum
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1753
- Murainagrass
- Specific epithet:
chordatum
- (Trin.) Hack ex Warb.
- Botanical name: - Ischaemum chordatum (Trin.) Hack ex Warb.
- Specific epithet:
chordatum
- (Trin.) Hack ex Warb.
- Genus:
Ischaemum
(
- Subtribe:
Ischaeminae
(
- Tribe:
Andropogoneae
(
- Subfamily:
Panicoideae
(
- Family:
Gramineae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Juncanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Andropogon chordatus (Trin.) Steud. • Ischaemum Polystachyum Chordatum • Ischaemum polystachyum J. Presl var. chordatum (Trin.) Fosberg & Sachet • Ischaemum Timorense Chordatum • Ischaemum timorense Kunth var. chordatum (Trin.) Hack. • Spodiopogon Chordatum
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Ischaemum
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
I. aureum (Golden Duckbeakgrass) · I. byrone (Hilo Ischaemum) · I. chordatum (Ischaemum) · I. indicum (Indian Murainagrass) · I. muticum (Seashore Centipede Grass) · I. polystachyum (Paddle Grass) · I. rugosum (Co Muraina) · I. timorense (Stalkleaf Murainagrass)
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Further Reading
- The useful plants of the island of Guam; with an introductory account of the physical features and natural history of the island, of the character and history of its people, and of their agriculture / by William Edwin Safford. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905. url p. 287, p. 299, p. 60.
- [Pamphlets on agriculture in Guam] S.l.: s.n., 1905-1916 url p. 287, p. 299.
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 31, 2012.
- 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.
- USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2671223
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-507346
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 507346
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ISCH
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 44497
Footnotes
- Bi-xing Sun & Sylvia M. Phillips "Ischaemum". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 572, 596, 609, 639. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
