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凉山香茅Cymbopogon liangshanense L. Liou

凉山香茅Cymbopogon liangshanense L. Liou

科名:禾本科 Gramineae

属名:香茅属 Cymbopogon

《中国植物志》第10(2)卷197页
  6. 凉山香茅(禾本科植物资源)图版48:1-4
  Cymbopogon liangshanensis L. Liu, Pl. Res. Gram. 11: 14. 1989. (Sphalmate ut "liangshanense")
  多年生草本。秆疏丛生,基部裸露,具5-6节,秆节膨大,节内长约3毫米。叶鞘不明显增厚,松弛,内面黄绿色,无毛;叶舌长1-3毫米;叶片长20-30厘米,宽3-5毫米,粉绿色,平滑无毛。伪圆锥花序长约30厘米,分枝纤细;佛焰苞狭窄,先端渐尖,长约2厘米,宽约2毫米(每侧1毫米),边缘干膜质;总梗纤细,长5-15(-30)毫米,平滑无毛;总状花序细弱,长1-1.5厘米,宽1-1.5毫米,具3-4节;基部细瘦,不反折,无同性对小穗;总状花序轴节间与小穗柄长约2.5毫米,两侧边缘具长0.5-1毫米之柔毛,顶端具有齿裂的柄状附属物。无柄小穗长约4毫米,宽约0.8毫米;第一颖狭披针形,脊间上部有2-4脉,无翼,边缘微粗糙,顶端渐尖,有2齿,下部稍凹陷;第二外稃膜质,长2-3毫米,裂片间伸出细芒,芒长15毫米,近中部膝曲。有柄小穗退化,仅具第一颖,长2-3毫米,锥形。花果期7-9月。
  产于四川西南部(凉山);生于石灰岩山坡上。模式标本采自四川凉山。
  本种以总状花序之基部不具同型对小穗,有柄小穗退化,甚窄小,仅具1枚颖片,秆基部裸露,不为宿存叶鞘包藏;小穗较小,长4毫米,第一颖无翼,顶端有2齿;第二外稃具长约15毫米的细芒,与本属其它各种显然有别。

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Cymbopogon liangshanensis  L. Liu ex S. M. Phillips & H. Peng
凉山香茅   liang shan xiang mao
Perennial. Culms solitary or in small tufts, slender, 50–110 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf blades linear, glaucous, 20–30 × 0.3–0.5 cm, slightly scaberulous, glabrous, lower blades narrowed almost to midrib toward base; ligule 1.5–2.5 mm. Spathate panicle open, 30–40 cm, branches slender, laxly ascending; spatheoles narrowly lanceolate, greenish brown, 2–2.5 cm; racemes green, 1.5–1.8 cm, raceme bases linear, not deflexing; homogamous pair reduced, vestigial or often absent; rachis internodes and pedicels slenderly linear, margins ciliate with ca. 0.5 mm hairs increasing to 1.5 mm at apex, apices expanded, cupular, scarious, toothed. Sessile spikelet narrowly elliptic-oblong, 3.7–4 mm; lower glume shallowly concave below middle, sharply keeled, keels scabrid, wingless, 2–4-veined between keels above middle; upper lemma 2-lobed; awn 1.3–1.5 cm. Pedicelled spikelet narrow, 2–3 mm, reduced to the glumes, lower glume enclosing a much smaller upper glume. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep.
* Mountain slopes. SW Sichuan.
This species resembles Andropogon in its non-deflexing racemes and the lack of an obvious homogamous spikelet pair, although this is usually present as a vestige. It is not known whether the leaves are aromatic. The enlarged, toothed, cupular tips to the raceme bases, raceme internodes, and pedicels are a distinctive character of this species.

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