Aristida circinalis Lindm.
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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 - An erect slender cespitose perennial 50 to 80 cm. tall, with mostly basal, elongate blades, flat below, ending in a slender involute flexuous point, the panicles narrow but rather loose, 10 to 20 cm. long; glumes about equal, acute or mucronate, about 7 mm. long ; lemma about as long as or a little shorter than the glumes, including a thickish scarcely twisted beak of 3 to 4 mm.; awns spreading, slightly spiral or contorted at base, about equal, mostly 1.5 to 2.5 cm. long.