Axonopus aureus P.Beauv.

  • 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

    Axonopus aureus P.Beauv.

  • Description

    Description - A tall slender branching perennial, with wiry compressed culms, rather firm, spreading, flat blades, and a handsome inflorescence of 4 to 15 subdigitate slender golden-brown racemes, the stiff orange-yellow hairs in tufts below the spikelets as well as along the margins.