Eragrostis lugens Nees

• 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

  Eragrostis lugens Nees

• Description

  Description - An erect cespitose perennial 30 to 50 cm. tall, with more or less pilose sheaths, flat or involute blades, and open, rather diffuse, fragile panicles usually more than half the entire length of the culms, the axils somewhat pilose or the upper glabrous.

• Discussion

  Much of our material agrees with Mandon 1331 (E. soratensis) in having the primary branches of the panicle stiffer, the axils glabrous or sparsely pilose, and somewhat larger spikelets. This form appears to intergrade with typical E. lugens from Brazil.