View source for Saccharum brevibarbe

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|accepted_name=Saccharum brevibarbe
|accepted_authority=(Michx.) Pers.
|publications=
|common_names=Shortbeard plumegrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Saccharum;Saccharum brevibarbe
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saccharum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Saccharum brevibarbe]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 612
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 0.8-2.5 m; nodes glabrous or pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> not ciliate; auricles absent; ligules 1-2 mm; blades usually 40-60 cm long, 7-25 mm wide, glabrous. <b>Peduncles</b> 45-75 cm, usually glabrous, occasionally pubescent or minutely pilose; panicles 3-10 cm wide, linear or oblong; rachises (10)30-50 cm, glabrous or sparsely pilose; lowest nodes glabrous or sparsely pilose; primary branches 7-14 cm, appressed; rame internodes 4-6 mm, with hairs. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets 6.5-10.5 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, purple or straw-colored. <b>Callus</b> hairs 3-7 mm, from shorter than to equaling the spikelets, white to straw-colored or brown; lower glumes 5-veined, smooth basally, scabrous distally; lower lemmas 5.5-8 mm, not or indistinctly veined, initially entire, sometimes becoming bifid, teeth 2-2.5 mm; upper lemmas 5.5-8 mm, 0.9-1 times as long as the lower lemmas, 3-veined, entire or bifid; awns 10-22 mm, always flattened below, sometimes spirally coiled; lodicule veins sometimes extending as hairlike projec¬tions; anthers 2. <b>Pedicels</b> 3-4 mm, with hairs. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets similar to the sessile spikelets. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Del.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Saccharum brevibarbe</i> grows only in the southeastern United States.</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Awns 15-22 mm long, straight or sinuous at the base; upper lemmas of the sessile spikelets entire at maturity
|[[Saccharum brevibarbe var. brevibarbe|Saccharum brevibarbe var. brevibarbe]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Awns 10-18 mm long, spirally coiled at the base, usually with 2-4 coils; upper lemmas of the sessile spikelets bifid at maturity, teeth about 2-2.5 mm long
|[[Saccharum brevibarbe var. contortum|Saccharum brevibarbe var. contortum]]
|}
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name=Saccharum brevibarbe
|authority=(Michx.) Pers.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Del.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1503.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Saccharum
|species=Saccharum brevibarbe
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