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California Polytechnic State University, Robert F. Hoover Herbarium

(OBI)

Catalog #: OBI148143

Occurrence ID: 58c2c81e-6384-4bdf-abaf-65108f689544

Taxon Remarks: Slender Wheatgrass

Collector: Tom Schweich

Number: 1999

Date: 2018-07-24

Verbatim Date: 24-Jul-18

Locality: United States, Colorado, Lake, Brumley; On a terrace beside the North Fork of Lake Creek, between Twin Lakes and Independence Pass, about 11 mi. generally west on Colorado Highway 82 from the town of Twin Lakes.

39.08949042  -106.5418232  WGS 1984

Elevation: 3214 meters (10542ft)

Notes: Plants of Colorado. Brumley was a stage stop on the route across Independence Pass.; Perennial grass, 60 mm, clumped; leaves, sheath 85-115 mm, open, glabrous, margin of sheath glabrous, ligule membranous 0.5 mm, auricles 0.5-1.0 mm, blade 52-115 mm x 3.5 wide, flat to revolute, scabrous; inflorescence 1 per culm >leaves, 120 mm x 8 mm wide, panicle, single spikelets on alternating sides of rachis; rachis not extended, scabrous on margins, internodes 3.2-3.5 mm; spikelets many, 12 mm x 2 mm wide, similar, 1 per node, sessile, overlapping 5 mm; compression unremarkable; disarticulation between florets; glumes, lower 8 mm, veins #5, upper 9 mm, glumes, lanceolate, rolled, scabrous, green, veins, #5, margins scarious, tip sharp-pointed if an awn then 1 mm; Palea 7,5 mm,

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