Lophopogon prasannae, Prasad & Siddabathula & Swamy & Reddy & Rao & Rao, 2021

Prasad, Kothareddy, Siddabathula, Nagaraju, Swamy, Angajala Narayana, Reddy, Araveeti Madhusudhana, Rao, Mudadla Sankara & Rao, Boyina Ravi Prasad, 2021, A new species of Lophopogon (Poaceae) from Ananthapuramu of Andhra Pradesh, India, Phytotaxa 500 (3), pp. 234-240 : 239

Key to the species of Lophopogon :—

1. Lower glume of lowest spikelets closely nerved and tufts of hairs on the margins; upper glumes of pedicelled spikelets with tufts of hairs in the middle and forms transverse band................................................................................................................... L. kingii

- Lower glume of lowest spikelets not closely nerved and without tufts of hairs on the margins; upper glumes of pedicelled spikelets not forming a transverse band in the middle ......................................................................................................................................2

2. Leaf blade glabrous or hairy at base; peduncle more or less enclosed in spatheole or shortly exerted; upper glume of sessile spikelet 3-nerved, not keeled ....................................................................................................................................................... L. tridentatus

- Leaf blade with tuberculate hairs at base; peduncle prominently exerted from spatheole; upper glume of sessile spikelet 5-nerved, keeled.................................................................................................................................................................. L. prasannae sp. nov.