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|accepted_name=Dasyochloa
|accepted_authority=Willd. ex Rydb.
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Dasyochloa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dasyochloa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 45
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; stoloniferous, sometimes mat-forming. <b>Culms</b> (1)4-15 cm, initially erect, event¬ually bending and rooting at the base of the inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b> not basally aggregated on the primary culms; sheaths with a tuft of hairs to 2 mm at the throat; ligules of hairs; blades involute. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, short, dense panicles of spikelike branches, each subtended by leafy bracts and exceeded by the upper leaves; branches with 2-4 subsessile to shortly pedicellate spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, with 4-10 florets; disarticulation above the glumes. <b>Glumes</b> subequal to the adjacent lemmas, glabrous, 1-veined, rounded or weakly keeled, shortly awned to mucronate; florets bisexual; lemmas rounded or weakly keeled, densely pilose on the lower 1/2 and on the margins, thinly membranous, 3-veined, 2-lobed, lobes about 1/2 as long as the lemmas and obtuse, midveins extending into awns as long as or longer than the lobes, lateral veins not excurrent; paleas about as long as the lemmas; anthers 3. <b>Caryopses</b> oval in cross section, translucent; embryos more than 1/2 as long as the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 8.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Wyo.;Ariz.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Dasyochloa</i> is a monotypic genus that is restricted to the United States and Mexico. It has been included in the past in each of the following: Triodia, <i>Tridens</i>, and <i>Erioneuron</i>. <i>Dasyochloa</i> differs from all three of these genera, but resembles <i>Munroa</i>, in its leafy-bracteate inflorescence (Caro 1981). Seedlings of <i>Dasyochloa</i>, like those of <i>Erioneuron</i>, are shaggy-white-villous. This indumentum is composed of myriads of hairlike, water soluble crystals that wash off in water. They are the product of transpiration and evaporation.</p>
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|id=caro1981a
|text=Caro, J.A. 1981. Rehabilitacion del genero Dasyochloa (Gramineae). Dominguezia 2:1-17
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|id=sanchez1983a
|text=Sanchez, E. 1983. Dasyochloa Willdenow ex Rydberg (Poaceae). Lilloa 36:131-138
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|id=valdes-reyna1997a
|text=Valdes-Reyna, J. and S.L. Hatch. 1997. A revision of Erioneuron and Dasyochloa (Poaceae: Eragrostideae). Sida 17:645-666.
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name=Dasyochloa
|author=Jesus Valdes-Reyna;
|authority=Willd. ex Rydb.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Calif.;Wyo.;Ariz.;Nev.
|reference=caro1981a;sanchez1983a;valdes-reyna1997a
|publication title=
|publication year=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Dasyochloa
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