Monographs Details:
Authority:

Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Family:

Poaceae
Scientific Name:

Axonopus aureus P.Beauv.
Description:

Description - A tall slender branching perennial, with wiry compressed culms, rather firm, spreading, flat blades, and a handsome inflorescence of 4 to 15 subdigitate slender golden-brown racemes, the stiff orange-yellow hairs in tufts below the spikelets as well as along the margins.