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LEPTOCHLOA
Annual, perennial herb.
Stem: spreading to erect.
Leaf: generally cauline; ligule membranous, ± entire to jagged, sometimes ciliate; blade flat.
Inflorescence: panicle-like; branches spike- or raceme-like; spikelets short-stalked or sessile.
Spikelet: laterally compressed or ± cylindrical; glumes equal or not, 1(3)-veined, short-awned or not; axis breaking apart above glumes and between florets; florets generally 2–12; lemma back rounded or keeled, glabrous or hairy, 3-veined, tip obtuse or minutely 2-lobed, awn generally 0; stamens 1–3.
32 species: warm temperate, tropics. (Greek: slender grass, from slender inflorescence) [Snow 2003 FNANM 25:51–60; McNeill 1979 Brittonia 31:399–404]

Key to Leptochloa

1. Sheaths papillate-hairy; spikelets 1–3 mm; lemma back keeled; florets 2–4 ..... L. panicea subsp. brachiata

1' Sheaths glabrous or scabrous; spikelets 4–12 mm; lemma back rounded; florets generally 5–12

2. Perennial; stem internodes solid; cleistogamous spikelets often present in lower sheaths ..... L. dubia

2' Annual; stem internodes hollow; cleistogamous spikelets 0

3. Lemma awnless or mucronate ..... L. fusca subsp. uninervia

3' Lemma awn 0.5–3(5) mm

4. Florets ± white; lower glume 2–3 mm, lanceolate; lemma lanceolate ..... L. fusca subsp. fascicularis

4' Florets ± red; lower glume < 2 mm, triangular; lemma ovate ..... L. viscida

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