Homolepis aturensis (Sampled Red List Index Flora of Peru)

Homolepis aturensis

Location ²

Belize; Bolivia, Brazil; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; French Guiana; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Trinidad and Tobago; Venezuela.

Description ²

Found it moist and shady places, often in disturbed and secondary habitats.

Perennial; short-lived. Stolons present. Culms erect, or geniculately ascending; 20–50 cm long; 1–2 mm diam. Ligule a ciliolate membrane; 0.4–0.7 mm long. Leaf-blade base broadly rounded. Leaf-blades linear, or lanceolate; 4–12 cm long; 7–20 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous, or pubescent.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.
Panicle open; elliptic; 6–9 cm long.
Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels filiform.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 7–8 mm long; falling entire.

GLUMES Glumes similar; exceeding apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume ovate; 1 length of upper glume; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 7–9 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins ribbed. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume ovate; membranous; without keels; 7 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins without ribs. Upper glume margins ciliate (near base). Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; with palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret ovate; 5–7 mm long; membranous; 7 -veined; ciliate on margins; acute. Fertile lemma lanceolate; 5–6 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma margins flat. Lemma apex acute. Palea 1 length of lemma; cartilaginous.

FLOWER Anthers 3; 1.3–1.6 mm long.

Habitat Type ²

Moist savanna and shrub land.

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