Paspalum microstachyum J.Presl
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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 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.