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 - A stoloniferous perennial ; flowering culms ascending, leafy, simple, commonly 1 meter long; blades slender-petioled, lanceolate, mostly 12 to 15 cm. long, about 2.5 cm. wide; panicle large, as broad as long, the long slender naked branches and capillary branchlets at first erect, finally stiffly divergent, bearing 1 to few spikelets at the extremities.
Description - A stoloniferous perennial ; flowering culms ascending, leafy, simple, commonly 1 meter long; blades slender-petioled, lanceolate, mostly 12 to 15 cm. long, about 2.5 cm. wide; panicle large, as broad as long, the long slender naked branches and capillary branchlets at first erect, finally stiffly divergent, bearing 1 to few spikelets at the extremities.