Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Trachypogon filifolius (Hack.) Hitchc. Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 12 : 191. 1909.
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Trachypogon polymorphus filifolius Hack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. 2 3 : 264. 1883.
1 Stems up to 12 dm. tall, barbed at the nodes, otherwise glabrous ; leaf-sheaths smooth and glabrous ; ligule 2-5 mm. long ; blades terete, smooth and glabrous, up to 3 dm. long, lmm. in diameter or less; raceme single, terminating the stem, the glabrous axis 1-2 dm. long ; staminate spikelets about 6 mm. long, the first scale linear, glabrous, except at the ciliate apex ; perfect spikelets with a long-hairy callus 2-3 mm. long, the first scale glabrous, except at the ciliate apex, linear, about 7 mm. long, the awn of the fourth scale 3-5 cm. long, the spiral column hirsute, with long ascending hairs, about twice the length of the hispidulous subula.
Type locality : Caxoeira, Minas Garaes, Brazil. Distribution : Cuba ; also in Brazil.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
