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
Description:

Description - A stout cespitose perennial up to 1 meter tall, with firm, folded or loosely involute blades and open, rather diffuse panicles as much as 20 cm. long; glumes 3 to 4 mm. long.