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Aristida Calycina
''Aristida calycina'', commonly known as dark wiregrass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae that is native in Australia. Description The grass-like or herbaceous perennial plant has a compact or loosely tufted habit and typically grows to a height of . It is strongly branched and has wiry Culm (botany), culms. The leaves have smooth or scaberulous sheaths with a ligule that is approximately in length. The blade is convolute (botany), convolute or conduplicate or sometimes but in some cases is flat with a width of around . It has lanceolate shaped glumes that are in length with the upper portion being obtuse and the lower part acute to acuminate. The linear to elliptic Lemma (botany), lemma is purple or brown in colour with even darker margins and in length. The divergent flattened Awn (botany), awns have a length of up to . Taxonomy The species was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Robert Brown in 1810 as part of the work '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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''Aristida'' is a very nearly Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan genus of plants in the Poaceae, grass family. ''Aristida'' is distinguished by having three Awn (Botany), awns (bristles) on each lemma (botany), lemma of each floret. The genus includes about 300 species found worldwide, often in arid warm regions. This genus is among those colloquially called three-awns wiregrass (other), wiregrasses, speargrass (other), speargrasses and needlegrass (other), needlegrasses. The name ''Aristida'' is derived from the Latin "wikt:arista#Latin, arista", meaning "awn". They are characteristic of semiarid grassland. The Wiregrass Region of North America is named for ''Aristida stricta, A. stricta''. Other locales where this genus is an important component of the ecosystem include the Carolina Bays, the sandhills (Carolina), sandhills of the Carolinas, and sandhill, elsewhere, Acacia aneura, Mulga scrub in Australia, and the xeric grasslands around Lake Tur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |