Leptochloa

• 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

  Leptochloa

• Description

  Description - Spikelets few to many-flowered, short-pedicellate, appressed. loosely imbricate along a narrow rachis, forming slender racemes, these numerous in an elongate panicle ; glumes and lemmas keeled, the lemmas 3-nerved, glabrous or sometimes minutely pubescent on the nerves, not villous ; uppermost lemma reduced, awnless.