ligule

Plant height was measured from the caudex up to the uppermost ligules. Leaf area was determined using the length-to-width coefficient method.

For parapodial features, Savigny (1822: 33) indicated: "Cirres courts; le cirre superieur n'atteint pas meme le sommet de la branchie." [Transl.: Cirri short; the dorsal one does not reach branchial (upper notopodial ligules) tips].

Relative water content of ligules (RWC): was evaluated in nine ligules of each replicate, three of each inflorescence.

Flowers have cup with yellow-ferruginous, thick-fleshy sepals and reflexed at anthesis; corolla with petals formed by two distinct regions, cogules and ligules. Ligules have dark red color, serving to attract pollinators and cogules are yellow and form a concave chamber where the androecium is located.

Ligules 0.20-0.25 cm long; unequal and obtuse auricles, ciliate.

Receptacle flat; ray florets 8, pistillate, fertile; ligules bright yellow, less so at the base, 1.0-1.2 cm long, 1.52.0 mm wide; disk florets 20-30(50); the corollas dark yellow, glabrous, 4-5 mm long, the tube ca.

The most notable feature of the plant is the presence of long ligules that reach up to 9 cm long and small flowers with a long corolla tube.

petiolare of a white coloration on the apical side of buds (young flower); anthesis of at least one disc floret (mature flower); senescence of florets in anthesis together with beginning of abscission of ligules (young fruit); and overall abscission of ligules and dryness of fruits (mature fruit).

Speaking in ligules * Babbling bulbs * Shushing mushrooms

Near the end of his life, he was still inquisitive of minutiae such as the nature of ligules and sheaths and other vegetative characteristics used to identify grasses.

The collar of a leaf, located at the union of the blade and sheath, has appendages such as auricles and ligules that can be used to distinguish species (Figure 6-12).

Leaves 7-15; blades 9-43 cm long, 4.5-8 mm wide, flat to M-shaped, glabrous, the margins smooth or sparingly tuberculate-scabrous, gradually tapering into a roughened triangular tip; leaf sheaths 2-9 cm long, more or less tightly enveloping culms, glabrous, sparsely to strongly reddened or reddish purple; inner band of leaf sheaths reddish-purple-tinged except for the hyaline, friable apex, glabrous, the apex concave; ligules 2.5-7.5 mm long, obtuse to acute, the free portion pale reddish-brown or purplish.