Monographs Details:
Authority:
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
Family:
Poaceae
Poaceae
Description:
Description - Plants branched, woody, clambering to the height of 5 to 10 meters ; ligule 1 to 2 mm. long; blades narrowly lanceolate, 6 to 12 cm. long, narrowed at base, puberulent beneath ; panicles 5 to 10 cm. long, the spikelets obovoid, 4 mm. long, black and hard at maturity.
Description - Plants branched, woody, clambering to the height of 5 to 10 meters ; ligule 1 to 2 mm. long; blades narrowly lanceolate, 6 to 12 cm. long, narrowed at base, puberulent beneath ; panicles 5 to 10 cm. long, the spikelets obovoid, 4 mm. long, black and hard at maturity.