Stenotaphrum

• Authority

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

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Stenotaphrum

• Description

  Genus Description - Perennial creeping branched grass, with rather stout flattened culms and short linear leaves. Spikelets spieate or panicled, acute, mostly 2-flowered, imbedded in depressions on one side of the flattened rachis. Scales 4; first scale small or minute, second about as long as the spikelet, third similar to the second, subtending a staminate flower, fourth rigid, enclosing a perfect flower. Stigmas plumose. [Greek, a narrow depression.] A few species of tropical and subtropical distribution, the following typical.