Panicum tenerum Beyr. ex Trin.
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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 slender, stiff, tufted, glabrous, 4-9 dm. high. Sheaths glabrous, or the lower softly pubescent; leaf blades 4-15 em. long, 2-4 mm. wide, or the upper much smaller, erect, somewhat involute in drying, somewhat pubescent, at least toward the base; panicles solitary and terminal, 3-8 cm. long, or also a few smaller ones lateral; spikelets 2-2.8 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, shortstalked, rather crowded; first scale about one-half the length of the whole spikelet, 1-nerved, the second and third 5-7-nerved.
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Distribution
Open places in pine and scrublands, Andros and New Providence : Georgia and Florida to Texas ; Cuba ; Puerto Rico. Slender Panic-grass.
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