Exam 3 (Final)

Which genera (tribes)have reduced florets below the perfect florets?

Phalaris
Uniola
Paniceae
Andropogoneae

Which genera have hard, indurate, perfect, upper florets?

Phalaris
Stipeae (Possibly)
Paniceae

Which genera can have a spike inflorescence?

Lolium
Triticeae

Which genera have a single floret per spikelet?

Agrostis
Phleum
Stipa
Nassella
Hordeum
Sporobolus
Muhlenbergia
Spartina
Cynodon
Leersia
Oryza
Aristida

Which genera have multiple spikelets per node?

Hordeum
Elymus
Andropogoneae

Which genera are missing at least one glume?

Lolium
Paspalum
Pennisetum (Possibly)

Which genera have reduced florets above and below perfect florets?

Chasmanthium
Uniola

Which genera have both glumes longer than all of the florets contained in the spikelet?

Aveneae
Stipa
Nassella
Hordeum (Possibly)
Elymus (Possibly)
Elionurus

Which genera have absent glumes?

Leersia
Oryza

Which genera have a raceme inflorescence?

Nassella
Dasyochloa
Bromus (Or panicle)
Aristida (Or panicle)
Dasyochloa (Or panicle)

Which genera are panicles but do not have SPUBs?

Bromus
Briza
Aveneae
Melica
Stipa
Sporobolus
Dasyochloa (Possibly)
Tridens
Eragrostis
Pappophorum
Uniola
Panicum
Dichanthelium
Pennisetum

Which genera have a panicle of rames?

Andropogon
Bothriochloa
Saccharum
Sorghastrum
Sorghum
Tripsacum (Or spicate raceme)

Which genera have a spicate raceme?

Hordeum (Or spike)
Elymus (Or spike)
Elionurus
Schizachyrium
Tripsacum (Or panicle of rames)

Which genera have absent reduced florets?

Aira
Agrostis
Cynodon
Hordeum
Muhlenbergia
Nassella
Phleum
Spartina
Stipa

Which genera have SPUBs?

Bouteloua
Cynodon
Chloris
Desmazaria
Paspalum
Spartina
Echinochloa
Urochloa (Or open panicle)
Dasyochloa (Occasionally)

Which genera have right angle glumes?

Briza

Which genera have the palea adnate to the caryopsis?

1. Bromus
2. Hordeum (Occasionally)
3. Lolium (Slightly)
4. Oryza (Or lemma)

Which genera have open or contracted panicles?

Arundo
Avena
Briza
Bromus (Or racemes)
Chasmanthium
Dasyochloa (Or raceme)
Desmazeria
Dichanthelium
Eragrostis
Leersia
Melica
Muhlenbergia
Nassella
Oryza
Panicum
Pappophorum
Pennisetum
Phalaris
Phleum
Sporobolus
Stipa
Tridens
Uniola
Urochloa (Or SPUB)
Air

Which genera have lemme apex that dissects into multiple awns of unequal length?

Pappophorum

Bromeae

Bromus

Poeae

Briza, Desmazeria, Lolium

Aveneae

Agrostis, Aira, Phalaris, Phleum, Avena

Meliceae

Melica

Stipeae

Stipa, Nassella

Triticeae

Hordeum, Elymus, Agropyron

Eragrosteae

Tridens, Sporobolus, Dasyochloa, Muhlenbergia, Eragrostis

Cynodonteae

Chloris, Spartina, Bouteloua, Cynodon

Pappophoreae

Pappophorum

Unioleae

Uniola

Paniceae

Panicum, Paspalum, Echinochloa, Urochloa, Dichanthelium, Pennisetum

Andropogoneae

Andropogon, Schizachyrium, Saccharum, Bothriochloa, Sorghum, Sorghastrum, Tripsacum, Elionurus

Arundineae

Arundo

Oryzeae

Leersia, Oryza

Centotheceae

Chasmanthium

Aristideae

Aristida