Paspalum conjugatum P.J. Bergius

  • 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 conjugatum P.J. Bergius

  • Description

    Description - An extensively creeping perennial, with compressed culms, the suberect flowering branches sometimes 1 meter tall ; blades flat, rather thin, up to 20 cm. long, commonly about 8 mm. wide; racemes a pair (rarely a third below), widely divaricate, usually arcuate, slender, commonly 10 to 12 cm. long, the pale yellow, flattened, imbricate spikelets about 1.5 mm. long, with scant long silky hairs around the margin.