Chusquea scandens Kunth

• 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 scandens Kunth

• Description

  Description - Blades linear-lanceolate, as much as 18 cm. long, 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, smaller on the branches, narrowed to a fine point; panicle narrow, rather dense, mostly 8 to 12 cm. long but sometimes as much as 20 cm. long, the branches spreading, the pedicels often reflexed.

• Discussion

  Four other species of Chusquea have been described from our region by Doctor Pilger, who has kindly sent the writer fragments from the type specimens. From the material at hand they can not be satisfactorily distinguished from C. serrulata, to which they would lead in the key. The species are: Chusquea polyclados Pilger, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 1: 147. 1905. (Near Hualgayoc Weberbauer 4021.) Chusquea straminea Pilger, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 1: 147. 1905. (Chachapoyas, Weberbauer 4408.) Chusquea inamoena Pilger, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 1: 150. 1905. (Prov. Tarma, Weberbauer 2295.) Chusquea tarmensis Pilger, Repert. Nov. Sp. Fedde 1: 151. 1905. (Prov. Tarma, Weberbauer 2129.)