Pogonatherum crinitum (Thunb.) Kunth. Enum.
Pl 1: 478 (1833).
Classification. (GPWG 2001) : Subfamily
Panicoideae. Andropogoneae.
Basionym and/or
Replacement Name: Andropogon
crinitus Thunb., Fl. Jap. 40, pl. 7 (1784).
Type of Basionym or
Protologue Information: Japan: no loc. given,.
Key references
(books and floras): [2002] D.Sharp & B.K.Simon, AusGrass, Grasses of
Australia, [2008] S.W.L.Jacobs, R.D.B.Walley & D.J.B.Wheeler, Grasses
of New South Wales (355 as P. paniceum).
Illustrations:
[2008] S.W.L.Jacobs, R.D.B.Whalley & D.J.B.Wheeler, Grasses of New South
Wales, 4th edn (355 as P. paniceum).
Habit.
Perennial. Culms prostrate, 10–50 cm tall, wiry. Mid-culm nodes pubescent.
Lateral branches branched or fastigiate. Ligule a fringed membrane, a ciliolate
membrane, 0.3 mm long. Leaf-blades 1–7 cm long, 1–3 mm wide.
Inflorescence.
Inflorescence solid, a rame. Rhachis fragile at the nodes.
Spikelets.
Spikelets sessile and pedicelled, 2 in the cluster. Fertile spikelets
2-flowered, the lower floret barren (rarely male), the upper fertile, comprising
1 basal sterile florets, comprising 1 fertile floret(s), without rachilla
extension, elliptic, laterally compressed, 1.3–2.8 mm long.
Glumes. Glumes
dissimilar, firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume elliptic, cartilaginous or
coriaceous, without keels, 2 -nerved. Lower glume surface indumented. Upper
glume elliptic, 1 -nerved. Upper glume apex awned. Florets. Basal
sterile florets 1, barren, without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile
floret 66 % of length of spikelet, hyaline, 0 -nerved.
Fertile lemma 1–2.3 mm
long, without keel, 1 -nerved. Lemma apex lobed, awned, 1 -awned. Median
(principal) awn from a sinus, 8–22 mm long overall. Palea absent. Lodicules
absent or vestigial. Anthers 1.
Continental
Distribution: Temperate Asia, Tropical Asia, Australasia, and Pacific.
Australian
Distribution: Queensland.
Queensland:
Cook, North Kennedy.
Notes. Growing
in damp rocky situations from northern coastal Qld through SE Asia to Sri
Lanka. Flowers Oct.--Nov.
