View source for Bothriochloa longipaniculata

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|accepted_name=Bothriochloa longipaniculata
|accepted_authority=(Gould) Allred & Gould
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|common_names=Longspike silver bluestem
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bothriochloa saccharoides var. longipaniculata
|authority=unknown
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|name=Andropogon saccharoides var. longipaniculata
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Bothriochloa;Bothriochloa longipaniculata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bothriochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bothriochloa longipaniculata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 640
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>60-150(200) cm tall, 2-4 mm thick, robust; nodes glabrous or shortly hirsute. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, evenly distributed, glabrous, dark green; ligules 2.5-3 mm; blades 12-20 cm long, (3)4-7 mm wide, flat to folded. <b>Panicles</b> 9-20 cm, narrowly lanceolate, silvery-white or light tan; rachises 7-15 cm, with numerous branches; branches 3-5 cm, shorter than the rachises, erect, without axillary pulvini, with multiple rames; rame internodes with a membranous groove wider than the margins, margins copiously hairy, hairs 3-8 mm, at least somewhat obscuring the spikelets. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets (3)3.5-4.5 mm, narrowly ovate to lance¬olate, shiny green, apices acute; lower glumes hirtellous on the lower 1/2, hairs shorter than 0.8 mm, lacking a dorsal pit; awns 9-14 mm; anthers 1-2 mm. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets 1.8-2.8 mm, sterile. <b>2n</b> = 120.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Miss.;La.
|discussion=<p><i>Bothriochloa longipaniculata</i> grows at 2-200 m, along roadsides and in fields, open woodlands, disturbed ground, and swales of the Gulf coastal prairie, often in heavy clay soil. Its range extends from southern Texas and Louisiana to northeastern Mexico and possibly Panama.</p>
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name=Bothriochloa longipaniculata
|author=
|authority=(Gould) Allred & Gould
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Bothriochloa saccharoides var. longipaniculata;Andropogon saccharoides var. longipaniculata
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Tex.;Miss.;La.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Bothriochloa
|species=Bothriochloa longipaniculata
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