Chusquea uniflora Steud.

  • Authority

    Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chusquea uniflora Steud.

  • Description

    Description - Culms 4 mm. thick ; fertile branches several in a cluster at the nodes, 10 to 15 cm. long; blades lanceolate, as much as 5 cm. long and 1 cm. wide, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, subulate-pointed; panicles open, loosely flowered, about 5 cm. long; spikelets glabrous, rather broad, 6 to 7 mm. long; glumes minute; sterile lemmas less than half as long as spikelet, acute, slightly mucronate but not subulate-pointed.

  • Discussion

    Chusquea longipendula Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 32 : 348. 1898. Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2,000 meters alt. The type specimen, in the herbarium of the New York Botanic Garden, appears to belong to C. uniflora. The spikelets are old and in an unsatisfactory condition for study.