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|accepted_name=Aristida basiramea
|accepted_authority=Engelm. ex Vasey
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|common_names=Forktip threeawn;Aristide à rameaux basilaires
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae;Poaceae tribe Aristideae;Aristida;Aristida basiramea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Aristideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Aristida]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Aristida basiramea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 326
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 25-45 cm, erect, branching at most nodes. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous or sparsely pilose; ligules about 0.3 mm; blades 3-8 cm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, flat to folded, becoming involute in age, adaxial surfaces with scattered pilose hairs, pale green. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemose or paniculate, (2)4-10 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, with few (sometimes only 1 or 2) spikelets; primary branches weakly developed, to 2 cm, appressed, with 1-3 spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> appressed, only slightly overlapping. <b>Glumes</b> 1-veined, acute, awned, awns 1-2 mm, brown to purplish; upper glumes 10-12 mm; lower glumes 1-2 mm shorter; calluses 0.4-0.6 mm; lemmas 8-9 mm, light gray, mottled; awns erect to divergent; central awns 10-15 mm, with 2-3 spiral coils at the base; lateral awns 5-10 mm, not coiled but often curved and twisted basally, strongly divergent distally; anthers 3, about 3 mm, purplish-brown. <b>Caryopses</b> 6-7 mm, light chestnut brown. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Wis.;Ont.;Que.;Miss.;Tenn.;Fla.;N.H.;Tex.;N.Dak.;N.Y.;Colo.;Ala.;Mass.;Maine;Vt.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;W.Va.;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.
|discussion=<p><i>Aristida basiramea</i> grows in open, sandy, often barren ground in southern Ontario and in the United States. It is similar to A. dichototna, differing in its longer lateral awns. Further study may show that the two should be treated as conspecific varieties.</p>
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name=Aristida basiramea
|authority=Engelm. ex Vasey
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Andy Sudkamp
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Wis.;Ont.;Que.;Miss.;Tenn.;Fla.;N.H.;Tex.;N.Dak.;N.Y.;Colo.;Ala.;Mass.;Maine;Vt.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Nebr.;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;W.Va.;Mo.;Minn.;Mich.
|reference=None
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Aristidoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Aristideae
|genus=Aristida
|species=Aristida basiramea
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