Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Axonopus compressus (Sw.) P.Beauv.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stolons numerous, leafy, sometimes 6 dm. long. Culms 1.5-6 dm. tall, slender, compressed, glabrous; sheaths loose; leaves glabrous, sometimes sparsely ciliate, obtuse, those of the culm 5-10 cm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, those of the stolons about 2.5 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; spikes 2-5, 2.5-5 cm. long, approximate at the summit of the long and slender stalk; spikelets not crowded nor secund, about 2 mm. long, acute.

  • Distribution

    Grassy places, New Providence : Virginia to Florida and Texas ; the West Indies and continental tropical America. Flat Joint-grass.

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