Dinebra panicea (Retz.) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow subsp. brachiata (Steud.) P.M.Peterson & N.Snow

synonyms: Leptochloa panicea subsp. brachiata


mucronate sprangletop


Info

Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Genus etymology: Dinebra = "little tail" [Arabic, originally dzanaib before being Latinized], refering to the tips of the glumes
Species etymology: panicea = "pertaining to Pancium L." [Latin] refering to a similarity to the grass Panicum; brachiata = "forearm possessing" [Latin] refering to the inflorscence bearing branches at right angles
Photosynthetic type: C4 (warm season)
Nativity: naturalized - accidental
First recorded in Hawaiʻi: 2011

Map

 Distribution of Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata in Hawaiʻi.

Inflorescence

Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Inflorescence
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Inflorescence
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Inflorescence
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Inflorescence
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Inflorescence

Plant

Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Plant

Habit

Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Habit

Spikelets

Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Spikelets
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Spikelets
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Spikelets
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Spikelets
Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Spikelets

Landscape

Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Landscape

Collar

Dinebra panicea subsp. brachiata Collar

Description

Plants annual. Culms (5)13-150 cm, usually erect, compressed, branching; internodes hollow. Sheaths sparsely or densely hairy, particularly distally, hairs papillose-based; ligules 0.6-3.2 mm, membranous, truncate, erose; blades 6-25 cm long, 2-21 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose on both surfaces. Panicles 8-30 cm, with 3-100 racemose branches; branches 1-19 cm, ascending to reflexed. Spikelets 2-4 mm, distant to imbricate, green, magenta, or maroon, with 2-5(6) florets. Glumes sometimes exceeding the florets, linear to narrowly elliptic, acute, attenuate, or aristate; lower glumes 1.6-4 mm, linear to lanceolate; upper glumes 1.6-3.6 mm, lanceolate; lemmas 0.9-1.7 mm, glabrous or somewhat sericeous, acute to obtuse; paleas glabrous or sericeous; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm. Caryopses 0.8-1.2 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide, nearly round in cross section, with or without a ventral groove, apices acute to broadly obtuse.
(Description source: Barkworth, M.E., Capels, K.M., Long, S. & Piep, M.B. (eds.) 2003. Flora of North America, north of Mexico. Volume 25. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, Part 2. Oxford University Press, New York. 783 pp. http://floranorthamerica.org/Leptochloa_panicea )