Chloris radiata (L.) Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chloris radiata (L.) Sw.

  • 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.

  • Distribution

    Waste places and roadsides, New Providence : West Indies and tropical continental America. Radiate Chloris.

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