Eriochloa

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Eriochloa

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Annual or perennial, cespitose to stoloniferous herbs; culms erect or decumbent, unbranched or sparingly branched. Leaf conspicuously inflated or not, smooth; ligules usually a fringe of hairs with a minute membranous rim at the base; blades linear to lanceolate, flattened to involute. Inflorescence with distichous or nondistichous, appressed or spreading primary branches; secondary branches appressed; rachis terminating in a spikelet; disarticulation at the spikelet base; callus differentiated. Spikelets adaxial, dorsiventrally compressed; lower glume fused with the callus and forming a cuplike structure; upper glume about as long as the spikelet; lower floret lemma membranous, sterile; upper floret lemma 0.5-0.95 times the length of the lower floret, indurate, rugose, dull, with involute margins, mucronate or awned.