Paspalum scabrum Scribn.
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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 straggling annual, very scabrous throughout, with elongate, divergently branching, sometimes vinous-purple culms, clambering over shrubs, thin flat scabrous-hispid blades 5 to 10 cm. long and 10 to 18 mm. wide, tapering to both ends, and pale panicles 12 to 20 cm. long of numerous subverticillate spreading racemes 1.5 to 5 cm. long, the rachis acuminate, the white spikelets about 1.8 mm. long.
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Common Names
Waterleaf Family