Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Poaceae
Poaceae
Description:
Species Description - Culms 1.5-6 dm. tall, tufted, erect, or decumbent at the base. Sheaths loose, overlapping and often short and crowded at the base of the culm, glabrous or sometimes sparingly villous; leaves 7.5-30 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, smooth or scabrous; spikes 2-10, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, whorled or approximate at the summit of the culm or one or two sometimes distant; spikelets 3-6-flowered, 3-4 mm. long; scales acute, minutely scabrous on the keel, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-7-nerved, the others 3-5-nerved.
Species Description - Culms 1.5-6 dm. tall, tufted, erect, or decumbent at the base. Sheaths loose, overlapping and often short and crowded at the base of the culm, glabrous or sometimes sparingly villous; leaves 7.5-30 cm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, smooth or scabrous; spikes 2-10, 2.5-7.5 cm. long, whorled or approximate at the summit of the culm or one or two sometimes distant; spikelets 3-6-flowered, 3-4 mm. long; scales acute, minutely scabrous on the keel, the first 1-nerved, the second 3-7-nerved, the others 3-5-nerved.
Distribution:
Bermuda South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America|
Bermuda South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America|