Gymnopogon (Gymnopogon)
Description
Gymnopogon, is a genus of herbaceous plantsbelonging to the family of the Poaceae. It is originally from America. They are perennial or annual, caespitose or rhizomatous plants . With simple or widely branched stems. Leaves mainly caulinar, conspicuously distichous; the ligule a ciliated membrane; linear-lanceolate laminae, flattened, without midrib, usually rigidly patent, base subcordata or truncated with a short pseudo-speculum. Inflorescence a panicle of several spiciform clusters, thin, erect or patent; triquetro rachis, subsessile, unilateral spikelets, alternating in 2 rows on 2 sides of the rachis and parallel to this. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 1 bisexual floret and 1 sterile florets, the last floretreduced to a thin body in the shape of an edge; disarticulation above the glumes; glumes longer than the floret, narrow, acuminate, 1-nerves, carinate; lemma 3-nervia, minutely 2-fida, generally aristada below the tip; Palea as long as the motto, 2-carinated; Rhachilla usually with a thin terminal rudiment; lodicles 2; stamens 3; stigmas 2. Fruit a caryopsis ; embryo 1 / 4-1 / 3 the length of the caryopsis; dotted thread.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Poales
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Family: Poaceae
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Genus: Gymnopogon
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