Apocopis in Chinese Plant Names @ efloras.org All Floras Advanced Search Login | eFloras Home | Help Chinese Plant Names | Family List | Poaceae Apocopis Nees 楔颖草属 Description from Flora of China Amblyachyrum Hochstetter ex Steudel. Annual or perennial. Culms slender. Leaf blades linear; ligule short, membranous. Inflorescence terminal, composed of (1 or)2(–4) erect, closely appressed racemes; racemes fragile, spikelets imbricate, usually single, sessile spikelets present, pedicelled spikelets normally suppressed, sometimes a few basal spikelets enlarged, barren, awnless; rachis internodes shorter than spikelets, linear, ciliate; pedicels slender, partly adnate to margin of lower glume, occasionally bearing a rudimentary spikelet (developed in A. intermedius). Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed, florets 2; callus obtuse; lower glume papery to leathery, broad, flattened, 7(–9)-veined, apex broadly truncate or emarginate; upper glume narrowly lanceolate, 3-veined, 2-keeled, margins inflexed; lower floret staminate, lower lemma and palea similar, hyaline; upper floret variable, female, bisexual, male or barren, upper lemma linear-lanceolate, entire or 2-toothed, with geniculate puberulous awn, infrequently awnless, palea shorter and broader. Lodicules absent. Stamens 2. Fifteen species: tropical Asia; four species (one endemic) in China. (Authors: Chen Shouliang (陈守良); Sylvia M. Phillips) Lower Taxa Apocopis breviglumis Keng et S. L. Chen Apocopis heterogama Keng et S. L. Chen Apocopis paleacea (Trin.) Hochr. Apocopis wrightii Munro Related Objects Flora of China Apocopis.pdf PDF Related Links (opens in a new window) Treatments in Other Floras @ www.efloras.org Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Flora of China Interactive Keys by Xiangying Wen Other Databases W3TROPICOS IPNI ING Genus Search | eFlora Home | People Search | Help | ActKey | Hu Cards | Glossary |