Panicum laxum Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Panicum laxum Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - 'Culms simple or little branched, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes, 4-12 dm. high. Sheaths hirsute above, otherwise glabrous; leaves 1-2.5 dm. long, 4-15 mm. wide, glabrous, or sparingly pubescent on the upper side; panicles 0.5-3 dm. long, with many, slender spike-like branches, the lower branches spreading, the ultimate branchlets mostly secund; spikelets 1-1.5 mm. long, about 0.7 mm. wide, short-stalked; first scale 1-3-nerved, about one third the length of the whole spikelet, the second somewhat shorter than the third.

  • Distribution

    Turks Islands : nearly throughout tropical America. Red-top Panic-grass.

    Turks and Caicos Islands South America|