Chloris virgata Sw.

  • 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

    Chloris virgata Sw.

  • Description

    Description - Culms ascending, 20 to 40 cm. tall, scarcely compressed, the upper sheaths slightly inflated, glabrous in the throat; spikes mostly 5 or 6, suberect, somewhat flexuous in age, 3 to 5 cm. long ; fertile lemma villous on the keel to a little below the summit.