Paspalum lividum Trin. ex Schltdl.

  • Authority

    Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Paspalum lividum Trin. ex Schltdl.

  • Description

    Description - A tufted glabrous perennial; culms compressed, ascending from a decumbent base; blades flat, lax; racemes 3 to 5, subflexuous, approximate on the very slender axis, the rachis rather broad, the glabrous spikelets commonly lurid purplish, the glume and sterile lemma very thin.