Comprehensive Description
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Coelorachis loricata (Trin.) Nash
Rottboellia loricata Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 2 : 250. 1832.. Rottboellia filifolia Wright, in Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 8 : 209. 1871.
Stems up to 1 m. tall, simple, smooth and glabrous ; leaf -sheaths smooth and glabrous ; blades smooth and glabrous, triangular, the angles rounded, sometimes rounded on the back, the upper surface grooved, strongly nerved, up to 2 dm. long, 1 mm. in diameter or less ; racemes up to 2.5 dm. long, much exserted, about 1.5 mm. in diameter ; sessile spikelet 4.5-5.5 mm. long, including the basal callus, oblong-elliptic, obtusely acute, the first scale transversely rugose on the back with irregular strongly elevated ridges, cartilaginous ; pedicellate spikelet nearly obsolete, on a linear curved pedicel equaling or nearly as long as the sessile spikelet.
Type locality : Brazil. Distribution: Cuba and Brazil.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
