Agrostopoa (Poaceae, Pooideae, Poeae, Poinae), a New Genus with Three Species from Colombia Gerrit Davidse John S. Lehmann Curator of Grasses, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, Missouri 63166-0299, U.S.A. gerrit.davidse@mobot.org Robert J. Soreng and Paul M. Peterson Department of Botany, MRC-166, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A. sorengr@si.edu; peterson@si.edu ABSTRACT . Agrostopoa Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson, a new genus endemic to the páramos of Colombia, is proposed. The genus includes two new species, A. barclayae Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson and A. woodii Soreng, P. M. Peterson & Davidse, and a third species transferred from Muhlenbergia Schreber, A. wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Soreng & Davidse (lectotype designated here). A key for determining the species and illustrations of the three species are provided. Agrostopoa is placed in subfamily Pooideae because it has non-Kranz anatomy and lanceolate membranous lodicules, and in tribe Poeae where it differs from Agrostis L. by having carinate lemmas with a terminal awn or mucro, well-developed paleas, and peculiar synflorescences with recurved branches and fragile pedicels. It is classified near Poa L., but differs from that in its single-flowered spikelets that lack rachilla extensions and possess awned or mucronate lemmas. RESUMEN . Se propone Agrostopoa Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson como un género nuevo endémico de los páramos de Colombia. El genero incluye dos especies nuevas: A. barclayae Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson y A. woodii Soreng, P. M. Peterson & Davidse; y las tres especies transferidos de Muhlenbergia Schreber: A. wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Soreng & Davidse (lectotipo designado aquı́). Se presenta una clave de determinación y las ilustraciones de esas tres especies. Agrostopoa pertenese a la subfamilia Pooideae basado sobre la anatomı́a foliar de non-Kranz y el tipo de las lodiculas cuales son membranosas y lanceoladas, y a la tribu Poeae donde Agrostopoa se diferencia de Agrostis L. por tener las lemas carinadas con una arista o un mucron terminal, las paleas bien desarolladas y las inflorescencias peculiares con las ramas curvadas y los pedicelos frágiles. Segun la esquema de clasificación Agrostopoa es aproximada a Poa L., pero se diferencia de ése genero por tener las espiguillas con una sola flor que NOVON 19: 32–40. PUBLISHED ON carecen la extensión de rachilla, y tienen las lemas aristadas o mucronadas. Key words: Agrostopoa, Colombia, IUCN Red List, Poaceae, Poeae, Poinae, Pooideae, Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. A perennial grass collected in 1959 by Barclay and Juajibioy on the isolated Sierra Santa Marta massif in northern Colombia has remained unnamed until now. Reexamination of this collection convinced us this collection represents an unknown species in subfamily Pooideae Bentham, tribe Poeae R. Brown. Our search also indicated that a very similar annual species had been previously described by Mez (1921) as Muhlenbergia wallisii Mez, a genus placed in subfamily Chloridoideae Kunth ex Beilschmied, subtribe Muhlenbergiinae Pilger (Peterson et al., 2001 [M. wallisii was intentionally excluded from this Chloridoideae volume of the Catalogue of New World Grasses], 2007). While inventorying species of Muhlenbergia Schreber from South America in 1989, PMP recognized that the type collected by G. Wallis (M. wallisii) was not a chloridoid grass, but a member of the Pooideae. Despite the efforts of agrostologists to assign this collection to a current genus in the intervening years, the mystery remained. After the initial description of M. wallisii, no further mention has been made of this species in the grass literature, as far as we are aware, until Soreng et al. (2003: 454) reevaluated the US isotype fragment and noted that it represented an ‘‘unknown Deyeuxia or Pooideae.’’ The reappearance of the H. G. Barclay & P. Juajibioy 7079 specimen from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta gave us more material to study the annual species, enabling us to reclassify this species into the correct subfamily, and now we provide a new combination in a new genus, Agrostopoa Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson. In addition, we also describe two new species of Agrostopoa, one based on another 19 MARCH 2009. doi: 10.3417/2007132 Volume 19, Number 1 2009 Davidse et al. Agrostopoa (Poaceae) from Colombia Barclay & Juajibioy collection from the headwaters of the Rı́o Sevilla, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and the other based on a J. R. I. Wood collection from about 500 km south-southeastward in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy in Colombia. straight, or slightly sinuous, twisted; calluses glabrous, smooth, indistinct; paleas subequal to equal to the lemma in length, hyaline to thinly chartaceous, chlorophyllous, keels 2, smooth or slightly scabrous with distal hooks, the margins about as wide as the inter-keel region, 0.2–0.25 mm wide. Flowers bisexual; lodicules 0.3–0.7 mm, 2, lanceolate, entire; stamens 3, rarely 2, anthers 1.6–2.7 mm, filaments attached near the middle of the anther; ovaries glabrous, styles terminal, stigmas densely plumose, white, bearing branches to or near the base; caryopses 1.2–2 mm, fusiform, slightly laterally compressed, ventrally shallowly sulcate, firm, slightly translucent, light brown; hilum basal, punctiform; embryo 1/5–1/3 the length of the grain. Chromosome number unknown. Agrostopoa Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson, gen. nov. TYPE: Agrostopoa wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Davidse & Soreng. Genus novum ad tribum Poeas pertinens quod ab Agrostide L. lemmate carinato in mucronem vel aristam non geniculatam terminalem desinente atque palea subchartacea et chlorophyllosa lemma aequante manifeste bicarinata marginibus spatium inter carinas non excedentibus recedit; a Poa L. spiculis sine racheolae extensione flosculum solitarium gerentibus atque lemmate aristato vel mucronato recedit. Annuals or perennials, tufted or sometimes rooting at the lower culm nodes, branching primarily intravaginal; culms 7–29 cm, terete, slender, hollow, glabrous, smooth; nodes 2 to 6 or more, 0 to 3 nodes exposed above. Upper sheaths loose, smooth, margins closed at the base for 1–3 mm or up to 1/4 the length; basal sheaths herbaceous, papery, or becoming fibrous; collars without auricles; ligules 0.5–3.5 mm, hyaline, clear or slightly brownish, abaxially smooth, glabrous, apices entire to sparingly shallowly lacerate or irregularly deeply lacerate; blades 0.8–5 cm, to 1.5 mm wide, thin, folded with flat or slightly involute margins, the uppermost 0.5–1 cm, apices indistinctly to distinctly naviculate, slightly scabrous. Synflorescences 1–4 cm with 5 to 20 spikelets, paniculate, axis erect or arching, smooth, with 2 to 5 nodes; branches 1 to 4(to 5) per node, spreading, sinuous, slender, fragile, smooth, longest branches 0.4–1.6 cm with 1 to 7 spikelets; pedicels smooth, proximally capillary, recurved, fragile (breaking near base), distally expanded for 0.2–5 mm below the spikelet attachment. Spikelets 2.4–5.6 mm (excluding awns), 1-flowered, laterally compressed, nodding, without a rachilla extension, disarticulating above the glumes; glumes 2, unequal to equal in length, thinly chartaceous, 1- to 3-nerved, keel smooth or keel and margins slightly scabrous apically, margins hyaline, narrow, spreading and exposing the floret; lower glumes 2–5.6 mm, 1-nerved; upper glumes 2.4– 5.6 mm, 1- to 3-nerved; lemmas 2.1–4.5 mm, slightly shorter to slightly longer than the glumes, laterally compressed, 5-nerved, glabrous, surfaces mostly smooth, thinly chartaceous, keeled, keels finely scabrous in the distal 1/3–1/2; apices mucronate (, 0.7 mm) or awned from between 2, delicate, slightly scabrous, lateral lobes to 0.2 mm, or terminally awned, mucros and awns extended only as a vein, densely and finely scabrous; awns 2–5.2 mm, 33 Leaf anatomy. In cross section, the blades are thin with unspecialized mesophyll and widely spaced vascular bundles indicating C3 metabolism. Microhairs are absent. Distribution. All three species currently described in Agrostopoa are endemic to páramos of northern Colombia, from 3450 to 4500 m elevation. Etymology. We combine the generic names of Agrostis and Poa to represent a new genus that is somewhat morphologically intermediate between these two genera. Discussion. Agrostopoa differs from Agrostis by having carinate lemmas that are mucronate or awned with terminal non-geniculate awns and by having thinly chartaceous, chlorophyllous paleas that are as long as the lemmas with distinct keels where the distance between the two nerves is equal to or broader than the distance from either nerve to the margin. Agrostopoa differs from Poa by having spikelets with a single floret without a rachilla extension, and by having awned or mucronate lemmas. The only species of Agrostopoa previously described was named Muhlenbergia wallisii (; Agrostopoa wallisii) by Mez (1921). Because A. wallisii does not have Kranz anatomy and bicellular microhairs are lacking, it is definitely misplaced as a member of subfamily Chloridoideae (Peterson et al., 2001, 2007). In addition to possessing C3 metabolism, the lodicules of Agrostopoa are thin and lanceolate, characteristics that indicate a relationship with subfamily Pooideae rather than Chloridoideae. Agrostopoa seems most allied to members of tribe Poeae s.l., subtribe Poinae (Soreng et al., 2003, 2007, 2008), where the following genera also have singleflowered spikelets: Aniselytron Merrill, Apera Adanson, Arctagrostis Grisebach, Libyella Pampanini, and Tovarochloa T. D. Macfarland & But. Traditionally, subtribe Agrostidinae Fries has included many genera 34 Novon with single-flowered spikelets, but that characteristic is highly homoplastic in tribe Poeae sensu Soreng et al. (2003; cf. Soreng et al., 2007). Based on the following five major suites of characters, we are placing Agrostopoa in subtribe Poinae rather than Agrostidinae: (1) the upper culm sheaths are closed up to 1/4 their length, common in Poinae, rare or absent in Agrostidinae; (2) the palea keels are well separated, with the palea margins about as broad as the inter-keel gap, whereas in Agrostidinae the margins are commonly wider than the narrow interkeel gap (or invagination, if detectable when keels are absent); (3) the paleas are membranous and chlorophyllous, whereas Agrostidinae paleas are typically hyaline throughout except for the nerves of the keel (when present); (4) the awns are terminal and not geniculate, and the awns themselves are evenly scabrous along their length, whereas in the Agrostidinae the awns are typically dorsal and geniculate and the vestiture may vary along the length of the awn (exceptions are the following genera that have terminal or subterminal awns: Ancistragrostis S. T. Blake, Simplicia Kirk, Echinopogon P. Beauvois, and Dichelachne Endlicher); and (5) the lemmas and calluses are totally glabrous and smooth except for hooks on the upper half on the keel and apex near the awn (Agrostis and relatives typically have some lines of minute hairs along the base of the marginal nerves, and there are usually hooks and also sometimes hairs on the lemma surfaces). Without additional analyses, we are not able to suggest what genera within the Poinae might be most closely related to Agrostopoa. Agrostopoa species resemble elements of the Old World Colpodium Trinius complex (Alexeev, 1980; Alexeev & Tzvelev, 1981; Hedberg & Hedberg, 1994) that have single-flowered spikelets with glumes approximately equaling the lemmas and lack or have only vestigial rachilla extensions (i.e., Colpodium s. str. [sections Colpodium and Keniochloa (Melderis) E. B. Alexeev] and Paracolpodium (Tzvelev) Tzvelev sections Paracolpodium and Tzvelevia E. B. Alexeev). Species of Agrostopoa differ from all of these by the glabrous lemmas that are scabrous in the upper part (vs. pubescent in part and smooth throughout) and have awns or mucros, and by having hooks along the palea keels. From Colpodium they also differ in having 5-veined lemmas, and from Paracolpodium they differ in lacking rhizomes. Agrostopoa panicles are reminiscent of the racemose panicles with pendulous spikelets found in P. wallichii (Hooker f. ex Stapf) E. B. Alexeev. Preliminary molecular analyses by Gillespie et al. (2008) have shown Colpodium and Zingeria P. A. Smirnow to group together with Milium L., slightly apart from other elements of subtribes Puccinelliinae Soreng & J. I. Davis and Poinae, and for Paracolpodium to align within Puccinelliinae with Catabrosa P. Beauvois, Catabrosella (Tzvelev) Tzvelev, and Hyalopoa (Tzvelev) Tzvelev. However, unlike Agrostopoa, none of the other genera listed above or other Puccinelliinae have awns, whereas some genera of Poinae do. A possible relationship of Agrostopoa to genera of subtribe Cinninae Caruel also needs to be explored, as newer DNA evidence suggests that Cinninae genera may belong within Poinae (Gillespie et al., 2008). Cinninae genera have single-flowered spikelets, but, among other differences from Agrostopoa, their spikelets disarticulate at the base of the glumes, and their panicles are otherwise unspecialized. KEY TO THE SPECIES OF AGROSTOPOA 1a. Plants annual; lower glumes (2–)2.3–2.6 mm; upper glumes (2–)2.4–3.9 mm. . . . . . . . .1. A. wallisii 1b. Plants perennial; lower glumes (2.8–)3.4–5.6 mm; upper glumes (3.2–)4–5.6 mm. 2a. Lemmas awned, the awns 2–5.2 mm; basal sheaths papery; plants loosely tufted; culm nodes 3 to 10, upper 1 or several nodes exserted from the basal tuft of leaves; major roots to 0.25 mm diam.; lower glumes (2.8–)3.4–4.4 mm; upper glumes (3.2–)4– 4.4 mm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. A. barclayae 2b. Lemmas mucronate, the mucros to 0.6 mm; basal sheaths becoming fibrous; plants densely tufted; culm nodes 2 or 3, hidden in the basal tuft of leaves; major roots to 0.4 mm diam.; lower glumes 4.4–5.6 mm; upper glumes 4.7–5.6 mm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3. A. woodii 1. Agrostopoa wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Soreng & Davidse, comb. nov. Basionym: Muhlenbergia wallisii Mez, Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17(13–18): 214. 1921. TYPE: Colombia. Magdalena: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, G. Wallis s.n. (lectotype, designated here, US 90978 ex B; isotype, US 90979). Figure 1. Annuals, branching frequently from the lower nodes; major roots ca. 0.20 mm diam.; culms 7–15 cm, slender, erect, smooth, glabrous; internodes more than 6, except the 2 lowermost, all elongated, without adventitious roots. Leaves mostly cauline; sheaths herbaceous not becoming fibrous or papery, with the margins free to within 1–2.5 mm of the base and overlapping for most of its length, loose (lightly inflated), smooth; ligules 0.8– 3.5 mm, triangular, hyaline except at the base, acute, smooth, clear, upper margin entire or sparingly lacerated; blades 0.8–2.5 cm, ca. 0.3 mm wide, folded or slightly involute, twisted in senescent blades, thin, surfaces and margins smooth, apex indistinctly narrowly naviculate, smooth (faintly slightly roughened with incipient hooks). Panicles 1–3.5 cm, with 5 to 15 Volume 19, Number 1 2009 Davidse et al. Agrostopoa (Poaceae) from Colombia 35 Figure 1. Agrostopoa wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Soreng & Davidse. —A. Plant habit. —B. Sheath, ligule, and blade. —C. Detail of panicle. —D. Lower glume. —E. Upper glume. —F. Lemma, dorsal view. —G. Lemma, ventral view. —H. Palea, dorsal view. —I. Palea, ventral view. —J. Lodicules and stamens enclosed in palea. —K. Lodicules and pistil. —L. Caryopsis. Drawn from H. G. Barclay & P. Juajibioy 7079 (MO, US). 36 Novon spikelets, the main axis erect, included in the upper cm with 3 to 5 nodes; lateral branches 1 to 4(to 5) at the lowest node, spreading, slender, smooth; longest branches up to 1.5 cm with up to 7 spikelets; pedicels 0.4–3 mm, with distal 0.2–0.8 mm expanded to the tip. Spikelets 2.4–3.9 mm, excluding the awns, mostly longer than the pedicels; glumes 0.4–0.5 mm wide in side view, 1-nerved, laterally compressed, (colors not determinable from the senescent material available), margins narrowly hyaline from near the base, smooth, apex acuminate to subaristate, keel smooth; lower glumes (2–)2.3–2.6 mm, usually distinctly shorter than the upper glume and the floret; upper glumes (2–) 2.4–3.9 mm, slightly longer or as long as the floret; florets 2.4–3 mm; lemmas 2.1–3 mm, laterally compressed, terminally awned, 5-nerved with the lateral and marginal nerves inconspicuous, keeled, keel with fine hooks in the distal 1/8–1/4, sides smooth, green to purple, margins involute at maturity, proximally narrowly hyaline in the distal 1/2, suffused with purple then clear to the edge; awns 2.5–5.2 mm, arising from the apex, entered by the central nerve only, hygroscopic, usually slightly sinuous near the middle, loosely twisted in the lower 1/2, minutely scabrous throughout; callus not well differentiated, blunt, smooth, glabrous; paleas about as long as the lemma or slightly shorter, acute, hyaline throughout or the keels slightly thicker and chlorophyllous, weakly 2-keeled, keels ca. 0.2 mm apart, smooth, margins ca. 0.2 mm wide; lodicules ca. 0.3 mm, minute; anthers 1.6–2.1 mm; caryopses ca. 1.5 mm, ventrally straight and dorsally curved, dark honey brown at maturity. 2. Agrostopoa barclayae Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson, sp. nov. TYPE: Colombia. Magdalena: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, alrededores de cabeceras de Rı́o Sevilla, 3490 m, 20 Jan. 1959, H. G. Barclay & P. Juajibioy 6567 (holotype, MO 5114991; isotypes, COL, US 2434406, US). Figure 2. Distribution and habitat. Agrostopoa wallisii is endemic to the high-elevation páramos of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Specimens have been collected on rock outcrops and on dry soils near the headwaters of the Rı́o Ancho at 3500 m in Colombia. IUCN Red List category. Agrostopoa wallisii clearly falls within the Data Deficient (DD) category as defined by the IUCN (2001). We have inadequate information to assess the status of this species, since we do not have data regarding its abundance or the extent of its distribution. Discussion. A lectotype at US was selected because the holotype at B was destroyed and we do not know if other original material exists. Additional specimen examined. COLOMBIA. La Guajira [as Depto. Magdalena on original label]: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, alrededores de cabeceras de Rı́o Ancho, Páramo de Macotama, 10u549550N, 73u309500W, 3500 m, 18 Feb. 1959, H. G. Barclay & P. Juajibioy 7079 (COL not seen, MO 2778513, US 2434347). Ab Agrostopoa wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Davidse & Soreng habitu perenni, invaginationibus basalibus chartaceis, glumis inferioribus (2.8–)3.4–4.4 mm longis atque superioribus (3.2–)4–4.4 mm longis recedit. Perennials, loosely tufted with spreading culms, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes; major roots ca. 0.25 mm diam.; culms 11–29 cm, erect to decumbent at the base in longer culms, smooth; internodes 3 to 10, elongated, longer culms with adventitious roots at the lower nodes. Leaves in basal clusters or in elongated culms in one to several clusters from the base of branches, originating from the lower 1/3 of the culm; basal sheaths papery, with the margins free to within 1–3 mm of the base and overlapping for most of their length, smooth; ligules 1–3.1(–3.3) mm, membranous, deeply to shallowly and irregularly lacerate, acute, abaxially smooth, clear or brownish; blades 1.5–5 cm, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, to 0.9 mm wide when flattened, folded or slightly involute, thin, margins smooth, apex indistinctly naviculate, faintly scabrous. Panicles 2–4 cm with 5 to 20(to 30) spikelets, main axis erect with 2 to 4 nodes, smooth; lateral branches with 1 to 3 spikelets, spreading, slender, smooth; pedicels 0.7–4 mm, with distal 0.2–0.8 mm expanded to the tip. Spikelets (3.5–)4–4.5 mm excluding the awns; glumes 0.2–0.3 mm wide in side view, 1-nerved to faintly 3-nerved, laterally compressed, dorsally green to purple, laterally purple, margins hyaline from near the base, apex acute, keel and margins apically weakly scabrous; lower glumes (2.8–)3.4–4.4 mm, as long as or slightly shorter than the floret; upper glumes (3.2–)4–4.4 mm, as long as or slightly longer than the floret; florets 4–4.5 mm; lemma keel with fine hooks in distal 1/2, sides inconspicuously papillate, terminally awned, 5-nerved with the marginal nerves inconspicuous, smooth, glabrous, green to purple, margins involute proximally, narrowly hyaline in distal 1/2, suffused with purple then clear to the edge, with sparse hooks toward the apex; apex acute, sometimes with delicate, hyaline lobes ca. 0.2 mm; awns 2– 5.2 mm, arising from the apex or between the lobes, entered by central nerve only, straight, slightly bent, or sinuous, but never geniculate and not or only slightly twisted at the base, minutely scabrous throughout; callus not well differentiated, blunt, smooth, glabrous; paleas about as long as the lemma, keels ca. 0.25 mm apart, margins 0.25 mm wide, Volume 19, Number 1 2009 Davidse et al. Agrostopoa (Poaceae) from Colombia 37 Figure 2. Agrostopoa barclayae Davidse, Soreng & P. M. Peterson. —A. Plant habit. —B. Sheath, ligule, and blade. —C. Detail of panicle. —D. Spikelet. —E. Lower glume. —F. Upper glume. —G. Lemma, dorsal view. —H. Lemma, ventral view. —I. Palea, dorsal view. —J. Palea, ventral view. —K. Lodicules, pistil, and stamens enclosed in palea. —L. Lodicules. Drawn from the isotype, H. G. Barclay & P. Juajibioy 6567 (US). 38 Novon keels distally and apex with few hooks; lodicules ca. 0.5 mm, flat, nerveless, asymmetrically lanceolate with an acute tip; anthers 2.1–2.7 mm, caryopsis fusiform, light brown, slightly translucent (suggesting lipid), ventrally sulcate. 1 to 3 per node, 0.4–0.6(–1) cm with solitary spikelets, spreading, slender, smooth, capillary, fragile, recurved at the base, with distal 3–5 mm gradually thickened to the tip. Spikelets 4.5–5.6 mm excluding the awns; glumes 0.2–0.3 mm wide in side view, 1- to 3-nerved, laterally compressed, dorsally green to purple, laterally purple, margins hyaline from near the base, apex acute, keel and margins apically weakly scabrous; lower glumes 4.4–5.6 mm, slightly shorter to slightly longer than the floret; upper glumes 4.7–5.6 mm, slightly longer than the floret; florets 3.7–4.5 mm; lemma keel with fine hooks in distal 1/2, sides inconspicuously papillate, terminally mucronate, 5-nerved with the marginal nerves inconspicuous, surface smooth, glabrous, green to purple, margins involute proximally, hyaline in distal 1/2, suffused with purple then clear to the edge, with sparse hooks toward the apex; apex acute or sometimes with 2 delicate, hyaline lobes ca. 0.1 mm; mucros 0.2–0.6 mm, arising from apex or between lobes, entered by central nerve only, straight, minutely scabrous throughout; callus not well differentiated, blunt, smooth, glabrous; paleas slightly shorter than the lemma, keels ca. 0.25 mm apart, margins 0.25 mm wide, keel apex with few to several hooks; lodicules ca. 0.7 mm, flat, nerveless, broadly lanceolate with a slightly irregularly lobed tip; stamens 3, rarely 2; anthers 1.7–2.2 mm; caryopsis ca. 2 mm, fusiform, light brown, firm, slightly translucent (suggesting lipid), ventrally sulcate. Distribution and habitat. Agrostopoa barclayae is known only from the type locality near the headwaters of the Rı́o Sevilla in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, where it was found growing among large rocks in a deep draw bounded by rock outcrops on west-facing slopes. IUCN Red List category. Agrostopoa barclayae clearly falls within the Data Deficient (DD) category as defined by the IUCN (2001). We have inadequate information to assess the status of this species, since we do not have data regarding its abundance or the extent of its distribution. Etymology. The epithet honors Harriet G. Barclay, a former professor of botany at the University of Tulsa (1929–1942), long-time botanist of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, and explorer of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, who collected the type. 3. Agrostopoa woodii Soreng, P. M. Peterson & Davidse, sp. nov. TYPE: Colombia. Boyacá: Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Boquerón cf. Cusiri, 4450 m, 31 Dec. 1985, J. R. I. Wood 5268 (holotype, US 3481074; isotype, K). Figure 3. Ab Agrostopoa wallisii (Mez) P. M. Peterson, Davidse & Soreng habitu perenni, invaginationibus basalibus fibrosis, glumis inferioribus 4.4–5.6 mm longis, superioribus 4.7– 5.6 mm longis atque lemmatibus mucronatis (non aristatis) mucrone 0.2–0.6 mm longo recedit. Perennials, completely glabrous, densly caespitose with spreading culms, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes; major roots ca. 0.4 mm diam.; culms 15–20 cm, erect to decumbent at the base in longer culms, smooth; nodes 2 or 3; internodes usually 2 or 3, hidden in the basal tuft, longer culms with adventitious roots at the lower nodes. Leaves in basal clusters or in elongated culms in one to several clusters from the base with branches originating from the lower 1/3 of the culm; sheaths becoming distinctly fibrous in age, uppermost ca. 4 cm, with the margins fused ca. 1/4 the length and overlapping on the upper part, smooth; ligules 0.5–2.5 mm, membranous, deeply, irregularly lacerate, acute, abaxially smooth, clear or brownish; blades 1.5–4.5 cm, 0.5–0.8 mm wide, up to 1.5 mm wide when flattened, flat or folded or slightly involute on the margins, thin, surfaces and margins smooth, apex abruptly distinctly naviculate, smooth. Panicles 2–3 cm, with 8 to 11 spikelets, barely exserted, main axis erect, with 3 to 5 nodes, smooth; lateral branches Distribution and habitat. Agrostopoa woodii is known only from the Colombian type locality of Boquerón cf. Cusiri (Cusiri Pass) in the Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, ca. 100–130 km southeast of Bucaramanga, where it was found growing on bare gravel banks beside a stream in a páramo at 4450 m. IUCN Red List category. Agrostopoa woodii clearly falls within the Data Deficient (DD) category as defined by the IUCN (2001). We have inadequate information to assess the status of this species, since we do not have data regarding its abundance or the extent of its distribution. Etymology. The epithet honors the type collector J. R. I. Wood (1944–), a botanist at Oxford University who specializes in Acanthaceae and Lamiaceae, and who has been on many South American collecting expeditions. Acknowledgments. The authors thank Alice R. Tangerini at the Smithsonian Institution for preparing the illustrations; Patricia Gómez Bustamonte and Kostantyn Romaschenko for help correcting the Spanish resumen; Alain Touwaide for correcting the Latin diagnoses; and Simon Laegaard, Victoria C. Volume 19, Number 1 2009 Davidse et al. Agrostopoa (Poaceae) from Colombia 39 Figure 3. Agrostopoa woodii Soreng, P. M. Peterson & Davidse. —A. Plant habit. —B. Sheath, ligule, and blade. —C. Spikelet. —D. Lower glume. —E. Upper glume. —F. Lemma, dorsal view. —G. Lemma, ventral view. —H. Palea, dorsal view. —I. Palea, ventral view. —J. Lodicules. —K. Lodicules, pistil, and stamens enclosed in palea. —L. Caryopsis, dorsal view. —M. Caryopsis, ventral view. —N. Caryopsis, side view. Drawn from the holotype, J. R. I. Wood 5268 (US). 40 Novon Hollowell, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments that improved this paper. Peterson, P. M., R. J. Soreng, G. Davidse, T. S. Filgueiras, F. O. Zuloaga & E. J. Judziewicz. 2001. 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