Pennisetum

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Pennisetum

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets with a single perfect terminal fl and a lateral fl represented only by a thin, sterile, glume-like lemma; first glume short or wanting; second glume about as long as the sterile lemma; fertile lemma chartaceous, narrowly lanceolate, awnless; panicles dense, spike-like, with short-pediceled, involucrate groups of 1–few spikelets, the group and its invol falling together, the invol of several–many distinct or basally connate, often plumose bristles (short sterile branches). 100+, warm Old World.