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 - Shrubby, with strong canes, clambering to a height of 3 or 4 meters, the main branches often fascicled, the vigorous secondary foliage shoots mostly strongly divaricate or zigzag, usually glabrous throughout except on the margin of the sheaths: blades commonly less than 1 cm. wide, only on vigorous shoots as much as 1.5 cm. wide : panicles usually less than 10 cm. long, the branches deilexed at maturity.
Description - Shrubby, with strong canes, clambering to a height of 3 or 4 meters, the main branches often fascicled, the vigorous secondary foliage shoots mostly strongly divaricate or zigzag, usually glabrous throughout except on the margin of the sheaths: blades commonly less than 1 cm. wide, only on vigorous shoots as much as 1.5 cm. wide : panicles usually less than 10 cm. long, the branches deilexed at maturity.