(Gramineae)

Family: Poaceae/GraminaceaeSpecies: Bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris)Floral Formula: *Ca4, Co ∞, A3,

G3

Plant Habit Herbs, trees for bamboos

Stem Type Culms, hollow-pithed

Leaf Type Simple (open-sheathed, distichous, with a ligule at inner junction with blade)

Inflorescence Type grass spikelet = axis + two basal glumes + 1-∞

florets

Flower Sex Bisexual or Unisexual

Perianth Cycly Convolute

Stamen Position Half Inferior

Gynoecial Fusion Syncarpous

Fruit Type caryopsis (grain)

distichousleaf

arrangement

open sheath

ligule

Bamboos

Fruit: Grain

Achnatherum coronatum

GRASSES OF SAN DIEGO CO.

Agrostis pallens

Agrostis stolonifera