Paspalum fasciculatum Willd. ex Flüggé

  • 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 fasciculatum Willd. ex Flüggé

  • Description

    Description - A large, extensively creeping perennial, the compressed culms as much as 1 cm. wide and several meters long, the bases forming a tangled mass, the erect flowering culms 1 to 2 meters tall ; sheaths densely silky-ciliate, at least toward the summit; blades flat, 30 to 60 cm. long, commonly 2 cm. wide, the margins very scabrous ; racemes 10 to 12 cm. long, numerous, aggregate in a fan-shaped panicle ; spikelets 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, acuminate.