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| image_caption = Synonym ''Oplismenus hirtellus'' ssp. ''setarius'' shown, Photo by Nancy Loewenstein, Auburn University, [http://www.forestryimages.org Bugwood.org]
 
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Common name: basketgrass
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Common names: basketgrass, woods-grass<ref name=weakley>Weakley, A.S. 2020. Flora of the Southeastern United States. Edition of 20 October 2020. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.</ref>
 
==Taxonomic notes==
 
==Taxonomic notes==
Synonyms: ''Oplismenus hirtellus'' (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois ssp. ''setarius'' (Lamarck) Mez ex Ekman; ''O. hirtellus'' (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois
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Synonyms: ''Oplismenus hirtellus'' (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois ssp. ''setarius'' (Lamarck) Mez ex Ekman<ref name=weakley/>
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Varieties: none<ref name=weakley/>
  
 
==Description==  
 
==Description==  
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''Oplismenus setarius'' is a perennial grass.
 
''Oplismenus setarius'' is a perennial grass.
  
"Creeping perennial; upright culms 1.5-3.5 dm tall, geniculate, nodes appressed pubescent or glabrous, internodes striate, puberulent, pubescent, or glabrous. Leaves cauline; blades ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 cm long, 2-20 mm wide, upper surface densely nerved centrally, pubescent, lower surface occasionally conspicuously septate, puberulent, margins ciliate, conspicuously shorter than internodes; ligules, membranous, ciliate, 0.51-.5 mm long; collars pubescent. Panicle narrow, 2-12 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad; strongly winged-angled, scaberulous; lateral branches 1-10, scaberulous, less than 1cm long with 1-10 spikelets, occasionally pubescent at base of branches and between spikelets. Spikelets second, ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-3 mm long excluding wns; pedicels pubescent, less than 0.5 mm long. Frist glume strongly scaberulous keeled, lateral nerved obscure, margins obtuse, 0.2-0.6 mm long, 2nd glume and sterile lemma 3-nerved, pubescent or glabrous, scarious, acute, 2.5-3 mm long, sterile palea absent or rudimentary; fertile lemma and palea nerveless, apiculate to mucronate, 2.5-3 mm long. Grain yellowish, oblong to ellipsoid, 2-2.2 mm long." - Radford et al 1964
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"Creeping perennial; upright culms 1.5-3.5 dm tall, geniculate, nodes appressed pubescent or glabrous, internodes striate, puberulent, pubescent, or glabrous. Leaves cauline; blades ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 cm long, 2-20 mm wide, upper surface densely nerved centrally, pubescent, lower surface occasionally conspicuously septate, puberulent, margins ciliate, conspicuously shorter than internodes; ligules, membranous, ciliate, 0.51-.5 mm long; collars pubescent. Panicle narrow, 2-12 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad; strongly winged-angled, scaberulous; lateral branches 1-10, scaberulous, less than 1cm long with 1-10 spikelets, occasionally pubescent at base of branches and between spikelets. Spikelets second, ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-3 mm long excluding wns; pedicels pubescent, less than 0.5 mm long. Frist glume strongly scaberulous keeled, lateral nerved obscure, margins obtuse, 0.2-0.6 mm long, 2nd glume and sterile lemma 3-nerved, pubescent or glabrous, scarious, acute, 2.5-3 mm long, sterile palea absent or rudimentary; fertile lemma and palea nerveless, apiculate to mucronate, 2.5-3 mm long. Grain yellowish, oblong to ellipsoid, 2-2.2 mm long."<ref name="Radford et al 1964">Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 131. Print.</ref>
  
 
==Distribution==
 
==Distribution==
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This species ranges from eastern North Carolina to Florida, then west to Arizona and Texas. It's also located throughout the Caribbean and Central America to central South America.<ref name=weakley/>
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==Ecology==
 
==Ecology==
 
===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.-->
 
===Habitat=== <!--Natural communities, human disturbed habitats, topography, hydrology, soils, light, fire regime requirements for removal of competition, etc.-->
''O. setarius'' occurs in moist or wet loamy soil, from loamy humus to sandy loam (FSU Herbarium). It also seems to prefer partially to deeply shaded light conditions (FSU Herbarium). It can be found in mesic woodlands, live oak and mixed hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, and situations near water, like woodland floodplains and bordering swamps or creeks (FSU Herbarium). It also occurs in disturbed habitat, including trailsides, roadsides, common use areas, and railways (FSU Herbarium).
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''O. setarius'' occurs in moist or wet loamy soil, from loamy humus to sandy loam.<ref name="FSU Herbarium">Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: [http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu]. Last accessed: June 2014.  Collectors: Ed Keppner, Lisa Keppner, Cecil R Slaughter, Loran C. Anderson, Cynthia A. Aulbach-Smith, A. Harris, J. Edmisten, R. A. Norris, R. Komarek, Robert K. Godfrey, K. Craddock Burks, Sidney McDaniel, Camm Swift, Gary R. Knight, R. Kral, Richard S. Mitchell, R. A. Pursell, _Morril, D. B. Ward, E. Pritchard, G. P. Dewolf, James R. Burkhalter, George Avery, G. Crosby, John Beckner, Sandy Thompson, Carmen Rossy-Valderama, R. L. Lazor, and E. L. Tyson. States and Counties:  Florida: Alachua, Bay, Calhoun, Citrus, Dade, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Marion, Monroe, Osceola, Santa Rosa, St Lucie, Sumter, Volusia, Wakulla, and Washington.  Georgia: Grady.  South Carolina: Beaufort. Other Countries: Costa Rica, Panama, and Puerto Rico.</ref> It also seems to prefer partially to deeply shaded light conditions.<ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> It can be found in mesic woodlands, live oak and mixed hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, and situations near water, like woodland floodplains and bordering swamps or creeks.<ref name="FSU Herbarium"/> It also occurs in disturbed habitat, including trailsides, roadsides, common use areas, and railways.<ref name="FSU Herbarium"/>
  
 
===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers.  Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ -->
 
===Phenology=== <!--Timing off flowering, fruiting, seed dispersal, and environmental triggers.  Cite PanFlora website if appropriate: http://www.gilnelson.com/PanFlora/ -->
Flowering and fruiting has been observed in July, August, September, October, and December (FSU Herbarium).
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This plant flowers from August to October.<ref name=weakley/>
 
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===Fire ecology=== <!--Fire tolerance, fire dependence, adaptive fire responses-->
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Populations of ''Oplismenus setarius'' have been known to persist through repeated annual burning.<ref>Platt, W.J., R. Carter, G. Nelson, W. Baker, S. Hermann, J. Kane, L. Anderson, M. Smith, K. Robertson. 2021. Unpublished species list of Wade Tract old-growth longleaf pine savanna, Thomasville, Georgia.</ref>
 
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==Conservation and Management==
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==Conservation, cultivation, and restoration==
==Cultivation and restoration==
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==Cultural use==
 
==Photo Gallery==
 
==Photo Gallery==
 
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==References and notes==
 
==References and notes==
Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: [http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu]. Last accessed: June 2014.  Collectors: Ed Keppner, Lisa Keppner, Cecil R Slaughter, Loran C. Anderson, Cynthia A. Aulbach-Smith, A. Harris, J. Edmisten, R. A. Norris, R. Komarek, Robert K. Godfrey, K. Craddock Burks, Sidney McDaniel, Camm Swift, Gary R. Knight, R. Kral, Richard S. Mitchell, R. A. Pursell, _Morril, D. B. Ward, E. Pritchard, G. P. Dewolf, James R. Burkhalter, George Avery, G. Crosby, John Beckner, Sandy Thompson, Carmen Rossy-Valderama, R. L. Lazor, and E. L. Tyson.  States and Counties:  Florida: Alachua, Bay, Calhoun, Citrus, Dade, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Marion, Monroe, Osceola, Santa Rosa, St Lucie, Sumter, Volusia, Wakulla, and Washington.  Georgia: Grady.  South Carolina: Beaufort. Other Countries: Costa Rica, Panama, and Puerto Rico.
 
 
Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 131. Print.
 

Latest revision as of 13:26, 16 June 2023

Oplismenus setarius
Opli hirt-spp-seta.jpg
Synonym Oplismenus hirtellus ssp. setarius shown, Photo by Nancy Loewenstein, Auburn University, Bugwood.org
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class: Liliopsida – Monocotyledons
Order: Cyperales
Family: Poaceae ⁄ Gramineae
Genus: Oplismenus
Species: O. setarius
Binomial name
Oplismenus setarius
(L.) P. Beauv.
OPLI HIRT dist.jpg
Natural range of Oplismenus setarius from USDA NRCS Plants Database.

Common names: basketgrass, woods-grass[1]

Taxonomic notes

Synonyms: Oplismenus hirtellus (Linnaeus) Palisot de Beauvois ssp. setarius (Lamarck) Mez ex Ekman[1]

Varieties: none[1]

Description

Oplismenus setarius is a perennial grass.

"Creeping perennial; upright culms 1.5-3.5 dm tall, geniculate, nodes appressed pubescent or glabrous, internodes striate, puberulent, pubescent, or glabrous. Leaves cauline; blades ovate to lanceolate, 2-6 cm long, 2-20 mm wide, upper surface densely nerved centrally, pubescent, lower surface occasionally conspicuously septate, puberulent, margins ciliate, conspicuously shorter than internodes; ligules, membranous, ciliate, 0.51-.5 mm long; collars pubescent. Panicle narrow, 2-12 cm long, 1.5-2 cm broad; strongly winged-angled, scaberulous; lateral branches 1-10, scaberulous, less than 1cm long with 1-10 spikelets, occasionally pubescent at base of branches and between spikelets. Spikelets second, ovoid to ellipsoid, 2.5-3 mm long excluding wns; pedicels pubescent, less than 0.5 mm long. Frist glume strongly scaberulous keeled, lateral nerved obscure, margins obtuse, 0.2-0.6 mm long, 2nd glume and sterile lemma 3-nerved, pubescent or glabrous, scarious, acute, 2.5-3 mm long, sterile palea absent or rudimentary; fertile lemma and palea nerveless, apiculate to mucronate, 2.5-3 mm long. Grain yellowish, oblong to ellipsoid, 2-2.2 mm long."[2]

Distribution

This species ranges from eastern North Carolina to Florida, then west to Arizona and Texas. It's also located throughout the Caribbean and Central America to central South America.[1]

Ecology

Habitat

O. setarius occurs in moist or wet loamy soil, from loamy humus to sandy loam.[3] It also seems to prefer partially to deeply shaded light conditions.[3] It can be found in mesic woodlands, live oak and mixed hardwood hammocks, pine flatwoods, and situations near water, like woodland floodplains and bordering swamps or creeks.[3] It also occurs in disturbed habitat, including trailsides, roadsides, common use areas, and railways.[3]

Phenology

This plant flowers from August to October.[1]

Fire ecology

Populations of Oplismenus setarius have been known to persist through repeated annual burning.[4]

Conservation, cultivation, and restoration

Cultural use

Photo Gallery

References and notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Weakley, A.S. 2020. Flora of the Southeastern United States. Edition of 20 October 2020. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  2. Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 131. Print.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: June 2014. Collectors: Ed Keppner, Lisa Keppner, Cecil R Slaughter, Loran C. Anderson, Cynthia A. Aulbach-Smith, A. Harris, J. Edmisten, R. A. Norris, R. Komarek, Robert K. Godfrey, K. Craddock Burks, Sidney McDaniel, Camm Swift, Gary R. Knight, R. Kral, Richard S. Mitchell, R. A. Pursell, _Morril, D. B. Ward, E. Pritchard, G. P. Dewolf, James R. Burkhalter, George Avery, G. Crosby, John Beckner, Sandy Thompson, Carmen Rossy-Valderama, R. L. Lazor, and E. L. Tyson. States and Counties: Florida: Alachua, Bay, Calhoun, Citrus, Dade, Escambia, Flagler, Franklin, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Marion, Monroe, Osceola, Santa Rosa, St Lucie, Sumter, Volusia, Wakulla, and Washington. Georgia: Grady. South Carolina: Beaufort. Other Countries: Costa Rica, Panama, and Puerto Rico.
  4. Platt, W.J., R. Carter, G. Nelson, W. Baker, S. Hermann, J. Kane, L. Anderson, M. Smith, K. Robertson. 2021. Unpublished species list of Wade Tract old-growth longleaf pine savanna, Thomasville, Georgia.