FENDLER THREE-AWN 



Ari'stida fendleria'na 



G19 



Flower head (panicle) up to 5 in. 

 long, narrow but open, with stiffly 

 erect, short branches 



Individual flower group (spikelet)- 

 1-flowered, short-stalked, erect 



Lowest (2) spikelct bracts (glumes) 

 sharp-pointed but without awns, 

 1 -nerved, unequal in length; 1st, or 

 lower glume half as long as 2d, or upper 

 glume which is about }'i in. long 



Outer flower bract (lemma) firm, 

 wrapped around "seed", ending below 

 in a finely hairy base (callus), and 

 tipped above by a long, 3-parted beard 

 (awn); 3 awn divisions equal in length, 

 up to 2 in. long, ascending 



Stalks (culms) densely tufted below, 

 erect, often naked but sometimes with 

 1 or 2 very short stem leaves 



Leaves fine, crowded at base, forming 

 a dense, curly cusliion, inrolled, sharp- 

 pointed, up to 2 or 3 in. long, having 

 a ring of fine hairs where blade joins 

 sheath 



Roots thickened-fibrous 



