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Microstegium
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Annual (in ours). Inflorescence of 1-many subdigitate racemes. Spikelets all alike or nearly so, paired, one sessile, one pedicellate, dorsally flattened with an obtuse callus. Rhachis internodes and pedicels slender, filiform to clavate. Lower glume with a median groove on the back, sharply inflexed on the flanks, acute to 2-dentate. Upper glume often awned. Lower floret variable, often male or rudimentary. Upper lemma entire to 2-fid with a glabrous awn.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:15
Specimens with Sequences:16
Specimens with Barcodes:11
Species:3
Species With Barcodes:3
Public Records:13
Public Species:3
Public BINs:0
Microstegium is a genus of African, Asian, and Pacific Island plants in the sorghum tribe within the grass family.[4][5]
- Species[3]
- Microstegium batangense - Sichuan
- Microstegium biaristatum - East + Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea
- Microstegium borianum - Meghalaya
- Microstegium brandisii - Taiwan, Myanmar, Java, Bali, Flores, Sulawesi
- Microstegium butuoense - Sichuan
- Microstegium delicatulum - Yunnan, Assam, Myanmar, Thailand
- Microstegium dispar - Java, Bali, Flores
- Microstegium eucnemis - India, Nepal, Southeast Asia, New Guinea
- Microstegium falconeri - Himalayas
- Microstegium fasciculatum - China, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, tropical Africa
- Microstegium fauriei - Taiwan
- Microstegium geniculatum - China, Southeast Asia
- Microstegium glabratum - Philippines, Indonesia, Hainan, Papuasia, Micronesia, Ryukyu Islands, Society Islands
- Microstegium japonicum - China, Japan, Korea
- Microstegium lanceolatum - Yunnan
- Microstegium monoracemum - Guangdong
- Microstegium nudum - China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, tropical + southern Africa
- Microstegium petiolare - Yunnan, Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand
- Microstegium rufispicum - Java
- Microstegium somae - Anhui, Fujian, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan
- Microstegium spectabile - Papuasia, Southeast Asia, Hainan, Taiwan, Hong Kong
- Microstegium stapfii - Myanmar
- Microstegium steenisii - Java
- Microstegium tenue - Taiwan, Luzon, Kosrae
- Microstegium vimineum - Primorye, China, Japan, Korea, Himalayas, Southeast Asia; invasive in North America and in parts of Africa
- formerly included[3]
- Microstegium pseudeulalia - Schizachyrium pseudeulalia
- Microstegium rupestre - Ischaemum polystachyum
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Tropicos, Microstegium Nees
- ^ The International Plant Names Index
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel in Lindley, John. 1836. Natural System of Botany 447.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 593 莠竹属 you zhu shu Microstegium Nees in Lindley
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