Overview
Distribution
Eragrostis prolifera (Sw.) Steud.:
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Venezuela (South America)
United States (North America)
Peru (South America)
Belize (Mesoamerica)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Venezuela (South America)
United States (North America)
Peru (South America)
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Davidse, G., M. Sousa Sánchez & A. O. Chater. (eds.) 1994. Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: i–xvi, 1–543.
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Pohl, R. W. 1980. Family 15. Gramineae. In: W. C. Burger, (ed.), Flora Costaricensis. Fieldiana, Bot., n.s. 4: 1–608.
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Barkworth, M. E., K. M. Capels, S. Long & M. B. Piep. 2003. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part 2. 25: i–xxv, 1–783. In Fl. N. Amer. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Döll, J. C. 1878. Gramineae II. Stipaceae, Agrostideae, Pappophoreae, Chlorideae, Avenaceae, Festucaceae. 2(3A): 1–160, t. 1–43. In C. F. P. von Martius Fl. Bras. F. Fleischer, Monachii et Lipsiae.
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Catasus Guerra, L. 1997. Las gramíneas (Poaceae) de Cuba, I. Fontqueria 46: [i–ii], 1–259.
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Gould, F. W. 1979. Poaceae. In R. A. Howard (ed.). Fl. Lesser Antilles 3: 25–220.
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Peterson, P. M. & S. C. Boechat. 2001. Eragrostis. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41: 81–115.
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Davidse, G. 1994. 83. Eragrostis Wolf. Fl. Mesoamer. 6: 263–272.
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Peñaloza-Jiménez, G., P. M. Peterson & D. Giraldo-Cañas. 2002. Los géneros Eragrostis y Leptochloa (Poaceae: Cynodonteae) en Colombia. Hickenia 3(35): 133–141.
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Boechat, S. C. & H. M. Longhi-Wagner. 2000. Padrões de distribuição geográfica dos táxons brasileiros de Eragrostis (Poaceae, Chloridoideae). Revista Brasil. Bot. 23(2): 177–194.
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Boechat, S. C. & H. M. Longhi-Wagner. 2001. O gênero Eragrostis no Brasil. Iheringia, Bot. 55: 23–169.
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Peterson. 2008. Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae: Eragrostideae) in Colombia. J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2(2): 875–916.
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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data.
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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
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Soreng, R. J., G. Davidse, P. M. Peterson, F. O. Zuloaga, E. J. Judziewicz, T. S. Filgueiras & O. Morrone. 2003 and onwards. On-line taxonomic novelties and updates, distributional additions and corrections, and editorial changes since the four published volumes of the Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) published in Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. vols. 39, 41, 46, and 48. http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG:. In R. J. Soreng, G. Davidse, P. M. Peterson, F. O. Zuloaga, T. S. Filgueiras, E. J. Judziewicz & O. Morrone Internet Cat. New World Grasses. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1024044
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Peterson, P. M. & S. C. Boechat. 2001. Eragrostis. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): II. Subfamily Chloridoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41: 81–115.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1003697
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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
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Beetle, A. A. 1977. Noteworthy grasses from Mexico V. Phytologia 37(4): 317–407.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/2538
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Lindeman, J. C. & A. L. Stoffers. 1963. Gramineae. 1: 121–203. In Fl. Netherl. Antilles. Natuurwetenschappelijke studiekring voor Suriname en de Nederlandse Antillen, Utrecht.
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Hitchcock, A. S. 1936. Man. Grasses W. Ind. 1–439. United States Government Printing Office, Washington.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/20405
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Baker, J. G. 1884-1885. Further contributions to the flora of central Madagascar. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 21: 317–353, 407–455.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/2119
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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data.
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National Distribution
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
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Physical Description
Morphology
Physical Description
Perennials, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems geniculate, decumbent, or lax, sometimes rooting at nodes, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stem internodes solid or spongy, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems with inflorescence 1-2 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes excee ding basal leaves, Leaves mostly basal, below middle of stem, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath hairy at summit, throat, or collar, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades very narrow or filiform, less than 2 mm wide, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades scabrous, roughened, or wrinkled, Ligule present, Ligule a fringe of hairs, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence an open panicle, openly paniculate, branches spreading, Inflorescence a contracted panicle, narrowly paniculate, branches appressed or ascending, Inflorescence a dense slender spike-like panicle or raceme, branches contracted, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets pedicellate, Spikelets laterally compressed, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 3-7 flo rets, Spikelets with 8-40 florets, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating above the glumes, glumes persistent, Spikelets disarticulating beneath or between the florets, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes equal or subequal, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glumes shorter than adjacent lemma, Glumes 1 nerved, Lemmas thin, chartaceous, hyaline, cartilaginous, or membranous, Lemma similar in texture to glumes, Lemma 3 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma apex truncate, rounded, or obtuse, Lemma awnless, Lemma margins thin, lying flat, Lemma straight, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea shorter than lemma, Palea 2 nerved or 2 keeled, Palea keels winged, scabrous, or ciliate, Stamens 2, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis, Caryopsis ellipsoid, longitudinally grooved, hilum long-linear.
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Type Information
Isotype for Eragrostis diversiflora Vasey
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Manzanillo., Colima, Mexico, Central America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Manzanillo., Colima, Mexico, Central America
- Isotype: Vasey, G. 1893. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 285.
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Isotype for Eragrostis diversiflora Vasey
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Manzanillo., Colima, Mexico, Central America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Manzanillo., Colima, Mexico, Central America
- Isotype: Vasey, G. 1893. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 285.
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Holotype for Eragrostis diversiflora Vasey
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Manzanillo., Colima, Mexico, Central America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. Palmer
Year Collected: 1891
Locality: Manzanillo., Colima, Mexico, Central America
- Holotype: Vasey, G. 1893. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 1: 285.
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Isotype for Eragrostis salzmannii Steud.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): P. Salzmann
Locality: North of Esplanda city on road to Jaquera., Bahia, Brazil, South America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): P. Salzmann
Locality: North of Esplanda city on road to Jaquera., Bahia, Brazil, South America
- Isotype: Steudel, E. G. von. 1853. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 277.
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Isotype for Eragrostis salzmannii Steud.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): P. Salzmann
Locality: North of Esplanda city on road to Jaquera., Bahia, Brazil, South America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): P. Salzmann
Locality: North of Esplanda city on road to Jaquera., Bahia, Brazil, South America
- Isotype: Steudel, E. G. von. 1853. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 277.
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Conservation
Conservation Status
National NatureServe Conservation Status
United States
Rounded National Status Rank: N1 - Critically Imperiled
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NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure
Reasons: Widespread in the West Indies (Adams, Jamaica).
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