spikelets pedicelled, 1-2 in the cluster; pedicels scabrous, bearing a few hairs, hairy at tip. Fertile spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets, 1 fertile florets without rachilla
extension, lanceolate, laterally compressed, 5-7 mm long, breaking up at maturity, disarticulating below each fertile florets. Floret callus pubescent, obtuse. Glumes
dissimilar, persistent, exceeding apex of florets. Lower glume 3-5 mm long, 0.7 times length of upper glume, elliptic, membraneous, 1-keeled, 3-veined, apex acuminate, 1-
awned, surface scabrous. Upper glume 5-8 mm long, 2 times length of adjacent fertile lemma, membraneous, 1-keeled, 5-nerved, apex caudate, surface scabrous, rough on
nerves. Florets: basal sterile florets male, or barren, with palea, persisting on inflorescence. Lemma of lower sterile floret similar to upper glume, 3-5 mm long,
elliptic, membraneous, 1-keeled, 5-nerved, obtuse. Fertile lemma 2-3 mm long, lanceolate, coriaceous, without keel, 5-nerved, lateral veins obscure, margins involute,
surface asperulous, interlocking with palea keels, apex dentate, bifid, 3-awned, principal awn from a sinus, 5-10 mm long, geniculate, with twisted column, column 4
mm long; lateral lemma awns arising on apex of lobes, 3 mm long. Palea coriaceous, with auriculate flaps, 2-nerved, surface asperulous. Lodicules 2, cuneate, fleshy.
Anthers 3, 1.5 mm long. Stigmas 2.
Notes
Found in China, India, Indo-China, Malesia, Papuasia, and Australia.
Distribution at Sulawesi
South: Lombasang.
Habitat
Open forests, forest margins, and grassy hillsides.
Specimen examined
Mc.Donald Ismail 4162 L; Eyma 1203 L; Bunnemeijer 11083 BO.
43. GARNOTIA Brongn. Type: Garnotia stricta Brongn. Voy. Monde 22: 132-
133, pl.21. 1830. Berghausia Endlicher. Gen. Pl. 3: 57. 1843; Grass. Burma, Ceylon, India
Pakistan i-xviii, 1-767. 1960. Miquela Arnott Nees. Gramineae 45-46. 1841.
Commemorating to Prosper Garnot 1794-1838, French naval surgeon, traveller and naturalist.
About 30 species in the world, Eastern Asia, Northeast Australia, Pasific. Plants annual, or perennial. Culms stiffly erect and unbranched, or weak, geniculately and
branching. Blades linear to lanceolate. Ligule short, membraneous, lacerate, or ciliate. Panicles usually contracted, with appressed branches. Spikelets paired, solitary, or in
threes. Pedicels unequal. Spikelets with 1 floret, dorsally compressed, disarticulating below spikelet. Glumes as long as spikelet, subequal, lower slightly longer, 3-nerved.
Lemma as long as upper glume, membraneous, 1-3-nerved, awned, slender, straight, flexuous, or geniculate from base or with twisted column. Palea subequal to lemma.
Key to the Species
1.a. Culms 60-140 cm long; sheaths longer than internodes; ligule a ciliolate
membrane ……………………………………………...43.1. Garnotia patula
b. Culms 45 cm long; sheaths as long as internodes; ligule a shallow membrane
…………………………………………………….……43.2. Garnotia stricta 43.1.
Garnotia patula Munro Benth. Fl. Hongk. 416. 1861.
Berghausia patula Munro, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 4: 362. 1860; Kew Bull. 27: 515-562. 1972.
Plants perennial, tufted. Culms 60-140 cm long, stiffly erect, unbranched. Nodes pubescent. Sheaths keeled, longer than internodes, glabrous, or thinly pilose.
Ligule a ciliolate membrane, with hairy auricles. Blades 20-60 cm by 4-10 mm, narrowed to the articulate base and tapering to an acuminate tip, glabrous below, with
sparse short hairs above, margin scaberulous. Inflorescence an opened panicle, lanceolate, 25-45 cm long; primary branches ascending, 3-15 cm long, bearing
spikelets to the base. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled: comprising 1 fertile florets, without rhachilla extension; lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, laterally
compressed, falling entire; callus glabrous, or pubescent, base obtuse. Glumes similar, reaching apex of florets, thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate, 3-5 mm
long, as long as upper glume, membraneous, 1-keeled, 3-nerved; apex acute, muticuous; 1-awned. Upper glume lanceolate, 1 times length of adjacent fertile
lemma, membraneous, 1-keeled, 3-nerved; apex acute, acuminate, muticous, 1-awned. Florets: fertile lemma 3-5 mm long, oblong, cartilaginous, without keel, 3-nerved;
margins involute, interlocking with palea keels; apex muticuous, or awned; principal
lemma awn straight, or flexuous, 0-15 mm long, without a column. Palea with auriculate flaps, as long as lemma, cartilaginous, 2-nerved; keels winged. Stamens 3.
Anthers 1.2 mm long. Stigmata 2, plumose.
Notes
Found in China, India, Indo-China, and Malesia.
Distribution at Sulawesi
Celebes.
Habitat Specimen examined
Manitik 12 WALL.
43.2. Garnotia stricta Brongn. Voy. Monde 22: 133, t. 21. 1832.
