Paspalum fimbriatum Kunth
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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 - Annual herb, lacking stolons; flowering culms 2-6 dm tall, erect from the base, unbranched or sparingly branched. Leaf sheaths glabrous; ligule 2 mm long; blades linear to lanceolate, flat, 10-24 x 0.6-1.3 cm, scabrous and glabrous on the upper surface. Inflorescence ovate; main axis 6-10 cm long; primary branches 1-1.5 mm long. Spikelets paired, ovate, 3-3.5 x 3- 3.5 mm , with winged glumes and lemma to produce a circular spikelet; upper glumes 3-3.5 mm long, 3-nerved, broadly winged; lemma of lower floret ovate, 3-nerved, broadly winged, muticous, the palea vestigial; lemma of upper floret ovate to elliptic, coriaceous, smooth, yellow, 2-2.2 mm long, muticous.
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Distribution
Common roadside weed. Bordeaux (A2630); Center Line Road (A2704), Susannaberg (M16577). Also on St. Croix; Central America to Brazil and the West Indies.
West Indies| Brazil South America| Central America| Saint Croix Virgin Islands of the United States South America| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|