Chloris radiata (L.) Sw.
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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 - Annual; culms decumbent, ascending or erect, 2-4 dm. long, usually branched, smooth and slender. Leaf-sheaths compressed, the blades flat, blunt or short-pointed, 2-15 cm. long; spikes several or many, radiating, slender, 4-8 cm. long, not pectinate; spikelets densely imbricated, the fourth scale rudimentary, bearing a filiform awn about 3 mm. long.
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Distribution
Waste places and roadsides, New Providence : West Indies and tropical continental America. Radiate Chloris.
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