Lasiacis sorghoidea (Desv. ex Ham.) Hitchc. & Chase
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Perennial herb; flowering culms 10-100 dm tall, erect to decumbent at the base, moderately branched. Leaf sheaths hairy, papillose, hispid or pubescent; ligule (0.3-)0.5-1.5(-2.6) mm long; blades lanceolate, ovate to linear, flat, (6-)9-19(-23) X (0.6-)1.2-3.4(-4.6) cm, smooth, hairy on the upper surface. Inflorescence ovate; main axis (5-)9-25(-35) cm long; primary branches 4-9 cm long, appressed to spreading. Spikelets solitary, obovate to elliptic, (3-)3.4-4.1(-4.3) x 2.5-3.2 mm; lower glume (1.2-) 1.5-2.1 (-2.7) mm long, 7-11-nerved; upper glume 3-4.3 mm long, 9-13-nerved; lemma of lower floret elliptic to obovate, 9-11-nerved, muticous, the palea fully developed; lemma of upper floret elliptic to obovate, indurate, smooth, brown, 2.9- 3.8 mm long, muticous.
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Discussion
Panicum divaricatum L. var. lanatum SchltdL & Cham., Linnaea 6: 33. 1831.
Panicum fuscum Sieber ex Griseb., Fl. Brit. W . I. 552. 1864
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Distribution
Occasional in disturbed areas. Bordeaux (A3853), Susannaberg (A3844). Also on St. Croix and St. Thomas; throughout the West Indies and Mexico to Argentina.
Argentina South America| México Mexico North America| Argentina South America| West Indies| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint Thomas Jamaica South America|