Paspalum decumbens Sw.

  • 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 decumbens Sw.

  • Description

    Description - A freely branching, decumbent perennial, with slender compressed culms, velvety foliage, the flat blades 5 to 10 cm. long and 5 to 8 mm. wide, and solitary arcuate racemes usually 2 to 3 cm. long, borne on very slender peduncles, these commonly several from the upper sheaths; spikelets obovate, 1.5 mm. long, a small first glume present, the second glume about half the length of the fruit.

  • Common Names

    phacelia