Panicum tenerum Beyr. ex Trin.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Panicum tenerum Beyr. ex Trin.

  • 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.

  • 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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