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 - Stout reeds, often 10 meters tall, the culms clothed below with old sheaths, the blades having fallen, the sharply serrulate blades commonly 2 meters long and 4 to cm. wide (forming a great fan-shaped summit to the sterile culms), and pale, plumy, densely flowered panicles 1 meter long or more, the main axis erect, the branches drooping.
Description - Stout reeds, often 10 meters tall, the culms clothed below with old sheaths, the blades having fallen, the sharply serrulate blades commonly 2 meters long and 4 to cm. wide (forming a great fan-shaped summit to the sterile culms), and pale, plumy, densely flowered panicles 1 meter long or more, the main axis erect, the branches drooping.
Common Names:
uva grass
uva grass