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:

Panicum L.
Description:

Description - Inflorescence paniculate (rarely racemose); spikelets pedicellate, biconvex; first glume present ; sterile lemma usually inclosing a hyaline palea, sometimes a staminate flower ; fruit chartaceous-indurate, the margins of the lemma inrolled.