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Revision as of 08:47, 30 May 2018

Dichanthelium chamaelonche
Dichanthelium chamaelonche FG.jpg
Photo by John B
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Liliopsida - Moncots
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Dichanthelium
Species: D. chamaelonche
Binomial name
Dichanthelium chamaelonche
Trinius
DICH CHAM DIST.JPG
Natural range of Dichanthelium chamaelonche from Weakley. [1]

Taxonomic Notes

Subspecies: Dichanthelium chamaelonche (Trinius) Freckmann & Lelong ssp. breve (A.S. Hitchcock & Chase) Freckmann & Lelong

Synonyms: (for ssp. breve) Panicum breve A.S. Hitchcock & Chase – HC, S; D. dichotomum (Linnaeus) Gould var. breve (A.S. Hitchcock & Chase) Gould & Clark; P. chamaelonche Trinius var. breve (A.S. Hitchcock & Chase) Lelong; (for ssp. chamaelonche) Panicum chamaelonche Trinius; P. chamaelonche var. chamaelonche

Description

Distribution

D. chamaelonche is found along the southeastern coast of the United States from Louisiana to Virginia. [2]

Ecology

Habitat

D. chamaelonche proliferates in moist pine savannas, flatwoods, and pineland pondshores. [2]

Phenology

Internodes can be glabrous or puberulent, and nodes glabrous, pubescent, or bearded, but the glabrous spikelets 0.9-1.2 mm long are diagnostic.

Conservation and Management

Cultivation and restoration

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. Weakley, Alan S. 2015. Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States: Working Draft of 21 May 2015. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 1320 pp.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.