Aristida mendocina Phil.
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Authority
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - A slender cespitose perennial 30 to 60 cm. tall, with loosely involute blades and narrow, rather loose panicles 10 to 20 cm. long, the branches ascending; glumes obtuse, very unequal, the first about 9 mm. long, the second 2 to 3 mm. long; lemma a little shorter than the first glume, compressed toward the summit; awns nearly equal, about 2 cm. long.