Neostapfia

Description

Neostapfia , is a monotypic genus of herbaceous plantsbelonging to the family of the Poaceae . Its only species : Neostapfia colusana ( Burtt Davy ) Burtt Davy, is native to the southwestern United States. It is an annual slimy plant; with ascending reeds of the decumbent base. Culms 7-30 cm tall; herbaceous not branched above. Culm with glabrous nodes. Internudos of the solid culms. Unarmed plants. The shoots of aromatic leaves not aggregated basally; it is not clearly differentiated in pods and sheets; arranged in a spiral (apparently, in the material seen); not auriculated. The wide sheets for concrete; 5-12 mm wide (not clearly separated from the pods, 5-10 cm long, the leaves about 12 mm wide in the center); exhibiting abaxially multicellular glands. The abaxial leaf blade with glands in the margins of the leaf. The sheets are not pseudopeciolated; without venation; persistent The absent ligule. Counter-ligule absent. They are bisexual plants, with bisexual spikelets; with the hermaphrodite florets. The spikelets of sexually distinct forms in the same plant; hermaphroditic and sterile