Pharus

• 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

  Pharus

• Description

  Description - Spikelets in pairs, appressed along the slender, spreading, nearly simple panicle branches, one pistillate, subsessile, the other much smaller, staminate, pedicellate; fertile lemma subindurate, terete, clothed, at least toward the beaked apex, with thick uncinate hairs ; blades with fine transverse veins between the longitudinal nerves, petioled (the petiole with a single twist reversing the upper and under surfaces of the blade), the nerves running from mid nerve to margin.