Paspalum racemosum Lam.
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Authority
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - A glabrous annual, with sparingly branching culms decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes, commonly 60 to 100 cm. long, loose sheaths, thin flat blades usually 3 to 12 cm. long and 1 to 2.5 cm. wide, rounded to subcordate at base, and oblong panicles 5 to 15 cm. long and 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, of numerous approximate, ascending to spreading racemes 1 to 2.5 cm. long, the rachis about 1 mm. wide, the spikelets about 2.5 mm. long, commonly purple to rusty brown, but sometimes pale, the glume and sterile lemma much longer than the fruit, thin, loose and finely fluted.