Sporobolus

• 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

  Sporobolus

• Description

  Description - Spikelets in open or spikelike panicles, awnless; glumes shorter than the floret ; palea readily splitting ; pericarp of the caryopsis loose, the seed readily falling therefrom.