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Setaria palmifolia (J. Koenig) Stapf
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Perennial from a short knotty rhizome. Culms erect or slightly geniculate, 75–200 cm tall, 3–7(–10) mm in diam. Leaf sheaths usually sparsely hispid, margins tuberculate-ciliate near ligule, otherwise glabrous; leaf blades fusiform-lanceolate, plicate, 20–60 × 2–7 cm, glabrous or hispid, narrowed toward base, apex acuminate; ligule 2–3 mm, ciliate. Panicle 20–60 × 2–10 cm, branches up to 20 cm, laxly spreading, flexuous, some spikelets subtended by a single 5–15 mm bristle. Spikelets broadly lanceolate, 3–4 mm, acute; lower glume triangular-ovate, 1/3–1/2 as long as spikelet, obtuse to acute; upper glume ovate, 1/2–3/4 as long as spikelet, 5–7-veined, acute; lower lemma neuter, often distinctly longer than upper floret, 5-veined, tipped with a short incurved beak; lower palea narrow, hyaline, 2/3 as long as lemma; upper lemma indistinctly rugulose to almost smooth, slightly shiny, apex apiculate, green and compressed. Fl. and fr. Aug–Dec. 2n = 36, 54.
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300-1800 m
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"Robust perennials; culms loosely tufted, 30-100 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaves 20-50 x 2-5 cm, elliptic, erect, plicately folded, narrowed to the base, thinly pubescent, scabrid along the nerves. Panicle 10-30 cm long, narrow, lax. Spikelets 3 mm long, pedicelled, crowded on small branches; lower glume 1.5 mm across, orbicular, obtuse, 5-nerved; upper glume 2.5 x 1.5 mm, 7-nerved; lower floret barren; first lemma 3 x 1.5 mm; palea oblong; second lemma 2.5 x 1.5 mm, acute; palea ovate, acute; anthers 1.5 mm long."
Panicum palmifolium J. König, Naturforscher 23: 208. 1788 ["palmaefolium"]; Chamaeraphis palmifolia Kuntze; Chaetochloa palmifolia Hitchcock & Chase; Panicum neurodes Schultes; P. palmifolium Willdenow ex Poiret (1816), not J. Konig (1788); P. plicatum Willdenow (1809), not Lamarck (1791).
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Panicum palmifolium J. König, Naturforscher. 23: 208. 1788.
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Type fragment for Panicum plicatum Roxb.
Catalog Number: US 978183
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): W. Roxburgh
Locality: India, Asia-Tropical
- Type fragment: Roxburgh, W. 1820. Fl. Indica (Ed. Carey). 1: 313.
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Forest fringes and banks of streams
Flowering class: Monocot Habit: Herb
Open forests, thicket margins, shady pathsides. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [W Africa, tropical Asia].
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United States
Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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