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Schizachyrium
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Annuals or perennials. Racemes single, usually arranged in a spatheate false panicle. Sessile spikelet: callus short, obtuse; lower glume awnless, with a deep, narrow median groove or flat or convex, with several intercarinal nerves, these distinct especially near the apex; upper glume usually keeled; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper floret bisexual; lemma keeled, usually deeply 2-fid, awned. Pedicellate spikelet usually male or vestigial and smaller than the sessile spikelet.
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Depth range based on 12 specimens in 2 taxa.
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Depth range (m): 0 - 1
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Depth range (m): 0 - 1
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Schizachyrium is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family.[4] The name is derived from the Greek words σχίζειν (schizein), meaning "to split," and ἄχυρον (achyron), meaning "chaff." It refers to either the glume or the toothed lemmas.[5][6][7]
In the United States, members of the genus are commonly known as bluestems.[8]
- Schizachyrium beckii Killeen - Bolivia
- Schizachyrium bemarivense A.Camus - Madagascar
- Schizachyrium brevifolium (Sw.) Nees ex Buse – Serillo Dulce - widespread in tropics
- Schizachyrium cirratum (Hack.) Wooton & Standl. - USA (AZ NM TX), Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador
- Schizachyrium claudopus (Chiov.) Chiov - Tanzania, Zaïre, Zambia
- Schizachyrium condensatum (Kunth) Nees – Colombian Bluestem - West Indies, Latin America from central Mexico to Uruguay
- Schizachyrium crinizonatum S.T.Blake - Australia
- Schizachyrium cubense (Hack.) Nash - Cuba
- Schizachyrium delavayi (Hack.) Bor - China, Himalayas
- Schizachyrium delicatum Stapf - tropical Africa
- Schizachyrium djalonicum Jacq.-Fél. - Guinea to Sierra Leone
- Schizachyrium dolosum S.T.Blake - Northern Territory, Queensland
- Schizachyrium exile (Hochst.) Pilg. - tropical + southern Africa; Indian Subcontinent, Myanmar
- Schizachyrium fragile (R.Br.) A.Camus - southern China, Vietnam, Java, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Micronesia
- Schizachyrium gaumeri Nash - Yucatán Peninsula, Chiapas
- Schizachyrium gracile (Spreng.) Nash - West Indies, Guatemala, Chiapas, Florida
- Schizachyrium gracilipes (Hack.) A.Camus - southern Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, northeastern Argentina
- Schizachyrium gresicola Jacq.-Fél - Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria
- Schizachyrium hatschbachii Peichoto - Brazil, northern Argentina
- Schizachyrium impressum (Hack.) A.Camus - Jammu & Kashmir
- Schizachyrium jeffreysii (Hack.) Stapf - Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Limpopo, Mpumalanga
- Schizachyrium kwiluense Vanderyst ex Robyns - Zaïre, Congo Republic
- Schizachyrium lomaense A.Camus - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast
- Schizachyrium lopollense (Rendle) Sales- Angola, Zambia, Mozambique
- Schizachyrium maclaudii (Jacq.-Fél.) S.T.Blake - West Africa
- Schizachyrium malacostachyum (J.Presl) Nash - Mesoamerica, Colombia, West Indies
- Schizachyrium maritimum (Chapm.) Nash – Gulf Bluestem - USA (LA MS AL FL)
- Schizachyrium mexicanum (Hitchc.) A.Camus - Mexico
- Schizachyrium mitchellianum B.K.Simon - Western Australia
- Schizachyrium muelleri Nash - Veracruz
- Schizachyrium mukuluense Vanderyst - Zaïre
- Schizachyrium multinervosum Nash - Cuba
- Schizachyrium niveum (Swallen) Gould – Pinescrub Bluestem - Florida, Georgia
- Schizachyrium nodulosum (Hack.) Stapf - western + central Africa
- Schizachyrium occultum S.T.Blake - Northern Territory, Queensland
- Schizachyrium pachyarthron C.A.Gardner - Australia
- Schizachyrium parvifolium (Hitchc.) Borhidi & Catasús - Cuba
- Schizachyrium penicillatum Jacq.-Fél - Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone
- Schizachyrium perplexum S.T.Blake - Northern Territory, Queensland
- Schizachyrium platyphyllum (Franch.) Stapf - Africa, Madagascar
- Schizachyrium pseudeulalia (Hosok.) S.T.Blake - Flores, Maluku, Sulawesi, Philippines, New Guinea, northern Australia, Caroline Is
- Schizachyrium pulchellum (D.Don ex Benth.) Stapf - tropical Africa
- Schizachyrium radicosum Jacq.-Fél - Guinea
- Schizachyrium reedii (Hitchc. & Ekman) Borhidi & Catasús - Cuba
- Schizachyrium rhizomatum (Swallen) Gould – Florida Little Bluestem - Florida
- Schizachyrium ruderale Clayton - western Africa
- Schizachyrium rupestre (K.Schum.) Stapf - tropical Africa, KwaZulu-Natal
- Schizachyrium salzmannii (Trin. ex Steud.) Nash - Mexico, Honduras, Lesser Antilles, South America
- Schizachyrium sanguineum (Retz.) Alston – Crimson Bluestem - tropical Africa, tropical Asia, New Guinea, Latin America, West Indies, USA (AZ NM TX FL GA AL)
- Schizachyrium scabriflorum (Rupr. ex Hack.) A.Camus - Bolivia, Paraguay, northern Argentina, southern Brazil
- Schizachyrium schweinfurthii (Hack.) Stapf - tropical Africa
- Schizachyrium scintillans Stapf - tropical Africa
- Schizachyrium scoparium (Michx.) Nash – Little Bluestem - widespread in Canada + USA + Mexico
- Schizachyrium semitectum (Swallen) Reeder - Mexico, Guatemala
- Schizachyrium spicatum (Spreng.) Herter - Uruguay, Paraguay, northern Argentina, southern Brazil
- Schizachyrium stoloniferum Nash - USA (MS AL GA FL NC SC)
- Schizachyrium sulcatum (Ekman) S.T.Blake - Colombia, Bolivia, western Brazil
- Schizachyrium tenerum Nees – Slender Bluestem - USA (OK TX LA MS AL FL GA NC)
- Schizachyrium thollonii (Franch.) Stapf - tropical Africa
- Schizachyrium urceolatum (Hack.) Stapf - tropical Africa
- Schizachyrium yangambiense Germ. - Zaïre
- formerly included[2]
now considered better suited to other genera: Andropogon Dichanthium Rottboellia Sehima Sphaerocaryum
References[edit]
- ^ "Genus: Schizachyrium Nees". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 1999-03-09. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Tropicos, Schizachyrium Nees
- ^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 331–339 in Latin
- ^ Quattrocchi, Umberto (2006). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses. Volume III P-Z. CRC Press. p. 1977. ISBN 978-0-8493-1303-5.
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 621 裂稃草属 lie fu cao shu Schizachyrium Nees, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 331. 1829.
- ^ Flora of Pakistan
- ^ "Schizachyrium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2011-09-25.
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution maps
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