Paspalum humboldtianum Flüggé
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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 tufted perennial, with culms commonly 50 to 80 cm. tall, erect from a woody decumbent base, usually branching from the lower nodes, leafy toward the base with overlapping sheaths and spreading blades, the sheaths and blades papillose-pilose, the firm flat sharp-pointed blades 8 to 18 cm. long and 8 to 15 mm. wide; racemes 2 to 5, ascending or spreading, lax, 5 to 10 cm. long, the rachis dull purple, the crowded purplish spikelets glistening with long white silky hairs, but hardly obscured by them.