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 - Differing from 8. sanguinalis in the more slender recemes, narrower rachis, more pubescent blades, smaller spikelets, and the presence of scattered long hairs on the rachis.