Paspalum microstachyum J.Presl

  • 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 microstachyum J.Presl

  • Description

    Description - A nearly glabrous annual, with slender erect culms usually 15 to 50 cm. tall, in small tufts, branching from the second or third nodes; blades hat, spreading. 4 to 15 cm. long, 8 to 20 mm, wide; panicle mostly 10 to 20 cm. long, of 7 to 25 or more spreading racemes, the elliptic, yellowish green spikelets about 1.5 mm. long and 0.8 to 0.9 mm. wide, minutely pubescent.