Aristida riparia Trin.

• 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

  Aristida riparia Trin.

• Description

  Description - An erect cespitose perennial about 80 cm. tall with rather thick blades, flat on the main culms, involute on the innovations, and narrow compact panicles 8 to 15 cm. long; glumes about equal, awned ; lemma about 6 mm. long, extending into a twisted beak or column about 1 cm. long, the base of callus 2-toothed ; awns about equal, 1.5 to 2 cm. long.