Paspalum urvillei Steud.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Densely cespitose, stout, erect, to 2 m; upper blades and sheaths glabrous, lower sheaths and base of the lower blades hirsute; panicle much surpassing the upper lf, dense, the numerous (8–30) racemes erect or appressed, 5–10 cm; spikelets elliptic, acute, 2.2–2.8 mm; glume white-villous; sterile lemma nearly glabrous; fertile lemma shorter and blunt; 2n=40, 60. Waste ground; native of trop. Amer., now widespread from s. U.S. (n. to Va.) s. to Argentina.