Paspalum distichum L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Culms 1-6 dm. tall, from a long stout rootstock; sheaths compressed, keeled, usually crowded and overlapping, especially at the base and on the innovations, glabrous, or more or less hairy on the margins; leaves commonly less than 1 dm. long, 3-6 mm. wide, usually glabrous; racemes terminal, in pairs, ascending, 2-5 em. long; spikelets singly disposed, ovate, 2.5-3 mm. long, acute, the 2 outer scales firm, 5-nerved, rarely 7-nerved, the first scale glabrous, the second appressed-pubescent, the third apiculate, pubescent at the apex.
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Distribution
Fresh water marsh. New Providence : Bermuda ; Virginia to Florida, Texas and California, and north on the coast to Oregon ; the West Indies and tropical America. Hitchcock's plant from Fortune Island, referred to this species, proves to be P. vaginatum Sw. Joixt-grass.
West Indies| Oregon United States of America North America| California United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Virginia United States of America North America| Bermuda South America|