Overview
Distribution
Leptochloa scabra Nees:
Argentina (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
French Guiana (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Guyana (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Peru (South America)
United States (North America)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Venezuela (South America)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Paraguay (South America)
Suriname (South America)
Argentina (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Costa Rica (Mesoamerica)
Ecuador (South America)
El Salvador (Mesoamerica)
French Guiana (South America)
Guatemala (Mesoamerica)
Guyana (South America)
Honduras (Mesoamerica)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Peru (South America)
United States (North America)
Panama (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Venezuela (South America)
Nicaragua (Mesoamerica)
Paraguay (South America)
Suriname (South America)
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Diplachne scabra (Nees) Nicora:
Argentina (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
United States (North America)
Venezuela (South America)
Argentina (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
United States (North America)
Venezuela (South America)
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Zuloaga, F. O., E. G. Nicora, Z. E. R. Agrasar, O. Morrone, J. Pensiero & A. M. Cialdella. 1994. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en la República Argentina. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 47: i–xi, 1–178.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/43109
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Nicora, E. G. 1995. Los géneros Diplachne y Leptochloa (Gramineae, Eragrosteae) de la Argentina y países limitrofes. Darwiniana 33(1–4): 233–256.
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SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data.
http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
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National Distribution
United States
Origin: Unknown/Undetermined
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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Global Range: Louisiana (near New Orleans) and tropical America.
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Physical Description
Morphology
Physical Description
Annuals, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stems trailing, spreading or prostrate, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems erect or ascending, Stems mat or turf forming, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stems compressed, flattened, or sulcate, Stems branching above base or distally at nodes, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy at summit, throat, or collar, Leaf sheath or blade keeled, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades 1-2 cm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blade margins folded, involute, o r conduplicate, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades scabrous, roughened, or wrinkled, Ligule present, Ligule an unfringed eciliate membrane, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Inflorescence branches 1-sided, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets sessile or subsessile, Spikelets laterally compressed, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 2 florets, Spikelets with 3-7 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, Spikelets secund, in rows on one side of rachis, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glumes shorter than adjacent lemma, Glumes keeled or winged, Glumes 1 nerved, Lemmas thin, chartaceous, hyaline, cartilaginous, or membranous, Lemma 3 nerved, Lemma body or surface hairy, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma awnless, Lemma straight, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea about equal to lemma, Palea 2 nerved or 2 keeled, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis.
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Type Information
Type fragment for Leptochloa liebmannii E. Fourn.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified from secondary sources
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. M. Liebmann
Locality: Antigua., Mexico, Central America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified from secondary sources
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. M. Liebmann
Locality: Antigua., Mexico, Central America
- Type fragment: Fournier, E. P. 1886. Mexic. Pl. 2: 147.
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Type fragment for Leptochloa liebmannii E. Fourn.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified from secondary sources
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. M. Liebmann
Locality: E of Monserrat, Mexico, Central America
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Status verified from secondary sources
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. M. Liebmann
Locality: E of Monserrat, Mexico, Central America
- Type fragment: Fournier, E. P. 1886. Mexic. Pl. 2: 147.
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Type fragment for Leptochloa scabra Nees in Mart.
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): K. F. P. von Martius
Locality: Pará, 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): K. F. P. von Martius
Locality: Pará, Brazil, South America
- Type fragment: Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. D. 1829. Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 435.
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Ecology
Habitat
Conservation
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