Gulf of Mexico

Eragrostis secundiflora J. Presl:
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Guyana (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)
Peru (South America)
Venezuela (South America)

Poa compacta Salzm. ex Steud.:
Brazil (South America)

Eragrostis secundiflora var. capitata (E. Fourn.) Beetle:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

Megastachya oxylepis var. capitata E. Fourn.:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

Eragrostis vahlii var. subfasciculata Döll:
Brazil (South America)

Eragrostis vahlii var. sejuncta Döll:
Brazil (South America)

Eragrostis yucatana L.H. Harv.:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

Eragrostis compacta Salzm. ex Steud.:
Venezuela (South America)

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Perennials, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems erect or ascending, 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, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly basal, below middle of stem, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy at summit, throat, or collar, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades scabrous, roughened, or wrinkled, Ligule present, Ligule a fringe of hairs, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence an open panicle, openly panicul ate, branches spreading, Inflorescence a contracted panicle, narrowly paniculate, branches appressed or ascending, 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 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 acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma margins th in, 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.

Type fragment for Eragrostis secundiflora J. Presl
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): T. P. X. Haenke
Locality: E of Monserrat, Mexico, Central America

Type fragment for Megastachya oxylepis var. capitata E. Fourn.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): -. Gouin
Year Collected: 1865
Locality: Veracruz, Mexico, North America

Depth range based on 6 specimens in 1 taxon.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 0 - 0
 
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United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure