Paspalum ceresia (Kuntze) Chase
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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 - An erect perennial, densely villous at the base, with culms in tufts from a short rhizome, sometimes one or two culms with a decumbent lower joint rooting at the node with a knoblike cluster of villous scales, glaucous foliage, the flat blades mostly 5 to 15 cm. long and 3 to 8 mm. wide, usually stiffly pilose on the upper surface near the margin, and 1 to 4 ascending to arching racemes rather distant on a very slender axis, the ribbonlike rachis purplish or bronze-green with bright yellow-brown margins and crowded silvery-silky spikelets, the hairs exceeding the spikelets and obscuring them.