Paspalum pilosum Lam.
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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 - An ascending to spreading perennial, in small tufts, the compressed culms 40 to 75 cm. long, the foliage mostly coarsely pubescent, the flat or somewhat revolute blades commonly 8 to 15 cm. long and 5 to 8 mm. wide; racemes solitary, terminal and axillary, 10 to 15 cm. long, erect-arcuate; spikelets in pairs, oblong-elliptic, the first glume usually well developed on the lower of the pair of spikelets, the second glume and sterile lemma firm in texture.