Luziola peruviana Juss. ex J.F.Gmel.

  • 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

    Luziola peruviana Juss. ex J.F.Gmel.

  • Description

    Description - A more or less decumbent, spreading, apparently annual grass, with culms 10 to 30 cm. long, flat blades 1 to 2 mm. wide, and spreading panicles 2 to 3 cm. long; pistillate spikelets 2 to 3 mm. long, with striate glume and lemma; fruit globose, smooth, a little more than 1 mm. long ; staminate spikelets 5 mm. long.