Paspalum vaginatum Sw.
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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 extensively creeping perennial, with loose sheaths and spreading involute-margined blades 2 to 6 mm. wide, tapering from base to apex, the sterile runners often stout, with closely imbricate leaves, the flowering branches ascending, commonly 20 to 30 cm. tall, with a pair of divergent racemes (rarely 3), the flat acuminate spikelets usually 3 to 4 mm. long.