| Deschampsia beringensis Hult. | |||
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| Family | Gramineae — APG family: Poaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Deschampsia holciformis, Deschampsia mackenzieana Raup | ||
| Description | Tufted, up to and exceeding 1 meter in height; leaves glabrous, mostly flat, 1.5—4 mm broad, with long, acute ligules; panicle ample, open, up to 40 cm long, with capillary, very scabrous branches, and numerous spikelets; glumes narrow, 4-5 mm long, florets usually 3; lemma scarious with 4 teeth at apex; awn mostly fixed close to base, somewhat longer than floret; rachis pubescent. In typical specimens, panicle is yellowish-green, but many specimens have darker panicle, caused at least in part by hybrid influence from D. caespitosa. | ||
| Ecology | Muddy shores. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The very closely related D. obénsis Roshev. is reported from Chukchi Peninsula; the report needs confirmation. A plant probably belonging to D. Mackenzieana Raup and very closely related to D. beringensis occurs at mouth of Mackenzie River. Both reports are indicated on Alaskan map by question marks. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.