Uniola

  • 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

    Uniola

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Perennial herbs with long and thick rhizomes or stolons; culms erect. Leaf ligules a line of hairs; blades flat to involute, tough in texture, tapering to a point. Inflorescence of 1 to many spicate racemes; branches terminating in a spikelet; disarticulation below the glumes. Spikelets 2-20-flowered, falling as a unit, solitary, strongly laterally compressed, pedicellate, in 2 rows along one side of the rachis; rachilla pronounced between florets; glumes 2-5-nerved, shorter than the spikelets, glabrous, unawned. Sterile florets above and below the fertile ones, the lower 2-6 empty and without paleas; lemma entire, coriaceous, strongly keeled, glabrous, 3-9-nerved, unawned; palea chartaceous, glabrous, unawned, the margins ciliate; stamens 3. Caryopsis terete.

  • Distribution

    Genus of 4 species, occurring in the New World from the southeastern United States to Central America, Cuba, and south to Colombia and Ecuador.

    Central America| Cuba South America| Colombia South America| Amazonas Ecuador South America| United States of America North America|