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|accepted_name=Sorghastrum elliottii
|accepted_authority=(C. Mohr) Nash
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|common_names=Slender indiangrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sorghastrum apalachicolense
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Sorghastrum;Sorghastrum elliottii
|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>[[Sorghastrum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sorghastrum elliottii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 631
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 70-190 cm tall, 1.2-2.4 mm thick; internodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> mostly glabrous, throats pubescent; ligules 2-5 mm, decurrent, ciliate; blades 20-55 cm long, 2.5-5.5(8) mm wide, mostly glabrous. <b>Panicles</b> 10-35 cm, open, arching, dark purple; rachises 0.3-0.8 mm thick 1-2 mm above the lowest node; branches capillary, flexible, longest branches 19.5-34.5 cm. <b>Spikelets</b> 6-7.5 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, dark chestnut brown at maturity. <b>Calluses</b> 1-1.3 mm, blunt; lower glumes 5.5-7.3 mm, glabrous, 5-veined; upper glumes 6.2-7.5 mm; awns 25-40 mm, 5 times longer than the spikelets, twice-geniculate; anthers 2-3 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 2-2.5 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 3-6.5 mm, flexuous. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ga.;Ind.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Sorghastrum elliottii</i> usually grows in dry, open woods on sandy terraces of the lowlands in the southeastern United States, often over a clay subsoil. Plants with straight panicles and sessile spikelets that are 1.3-1.8 mm wide are sometimes called S. apalachicolense D.W. Hall, but the variation appears to be continuous and such plants are included here as <i>S. elliottii</i>.</p>
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name=Sorghastrum elliottii
|author=
|authority=(C. Mohr) Nash
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|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sorghastrum apalachicolense
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ga.;Ind.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Sorghastrum
|species=Sorghastrum elliottii
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