G18 



POVERTY THREE-AWN 



Ari'stida dharica'ta, syn. A. pal'meri 





Flower head (panicle) usually more than half 

 length of entire plant, very open, with usually 

 paired, widely spreading (divaricate) branches, 

 at ends of which .are borne the individual flower 

 groups (spikelets) 



Stalks (culms) clustered at base, erect, some- 

 what rough to touch (scabrous) toward top 



Leaves about 6 in. long, spirally inrolled, 

 with overlapping sheaths 



Outer flower bract (lemma) up to about K in. 

 long, often purplish, scabrous, firm, wrapped 

 around seed, tipped by a straight (sometimes 

 somewhat twisted), 3-branched beard (awn); 3 

 branches of awn slightly unequal or nearly 

 equal, up to % in. long, somewhat spreading, 

 scabrous 



Lowest (2) spikelet bracts (glumes) 1-veined 

 (nerved), short-awned, equal, up to % in. long, 

 often purplish 



Roots thickened-fibrous 



