ABSTRACT
Genera Plantarum
. edition 5. 32. 1754; Helmut Genaust,
Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen
. 670. Basel 1996.
About 4-5 species, North America, southern U.S. to Ecuador, West Indies. Chloridoideae, Eragrostideae, Uniolinae, or Chloridoideae, Cynodonteae, Uniolinae, perennial, herbaceous, halophytic, erect, caespitose, rhizomatous or stoloniferous, long and thick rhizomes, auricles absent, ligule a fringe of short hairs, leaf blades long-attenuate, leaves harsh, plants bisexual, open or contracted inflorescence spicate or paniculate and exserted, many racemes crowded and overlapping, spikelets strongly laterally compressed, 6-20 florets per spikelet, lower florets barren or empty, 2 glumes acute and shorter than the spikelets, second glume awnless, many-nerved lemmas, strongly keeled lemmas coriaceous or papery, palea keels winged, 2 free and fleshy lodicules, 3 stamens, 2 stigmas, open habitats, slopes, dry grassy plains, sand dunes and flats, salty sites, arid places, salt flats, the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, related to
Desmostachya
, type
Uniola paniculata
L., see
Species Plantarum
71. 1753,
Flora Boreali-Americana
1: 71. 1803,
Florula Ludoviciana
… 144. New York 1817,
Am. Monthly Mag. Crit. Rev
. 2: 175. 1817 and 4: 188, 190. 1819,
Jour. Phys. Chim. Hist. Nat
. 89: 104. 1819,
Neogenyton, or Indication of Sixty-Six New Genera of Plants of North America
. 4. 1825,
Hortus Regius Botanicus Berolinensis
1: 159. 1827,
Preliminary Catalogue of Anthophyta and Pteridophyta Reported as Growing Spontaneously within One Hundred Miles of New York
69. 1888 and
The Southwestern Naturalist
11(2-3): 145-189, 372-393, 415-455. 1966-1967,
Kew Bulletin
37: 412. 1982,
Flora Mesoamericana
6: 257-258. 1994,
Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden
78: 509540. 1996,
Am. J. Bot.
