Paspalum polyphyllum Nees ex Trin.
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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 slender perennial, with suberect culms 20 to 60 cm. long, after flowering commonly producing short sterile branches with numerous small spreading blades, short-jointed below or throughout; sheaths glabrous except at the mouth, the spreading subinvolute blades 2 to 5 cm. long, mostly not more than 3 mm. wide, densely puberulent on both surfaces and with a few long hairs back of the ligule; racemes 1 to 3, mostly nodding, 2 to 7 cm. long, with crowded pale spikelets with a conspicuous silvery-silky fringe.
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Common Names
Nemophila