Comprehensive Description
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Coelorachis tessellata (Steud.) Nash
Rottboellia tessellata Steud. Syn. Gram. 362. 1855.
Rottboellia corrugata Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. 579. 1860. Not R. corrugata Baldw. 1819.
Manisuris tessellata Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. Agrost. 20 : 20. 1900.
Stems tufted, much compressed, 8-12 dm. tall, stout ; leaf-sheaths much flattened, broad, keeled; blades 4 dm. long or less, 3-8 mm. wide; racemes finally exserted, 6-12 cm. long, straight, the rachis barely if at all contracted at the nodes ; sessile spikelet about 5 mm. long, a little exceeding the internode, the first scale deeply pitted, the pits quadrangular ; pedicellate spikelet of 1 or 2 scales, about one half as long as the linear straight pedicel, which is shorter than the sessile spikelet.
Type locality : Louisiana.
Distribution : Georgia and Florida to Louisiana.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
