Panicum sellowii Nees

  • 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

    Panicum sellowii Nees

  • Description

    Description - Plants perennial, spreading; culms as much as 1 meter tall; blades thin, as much as 15 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, pubescent or glabrate ; panicle loose and open, rather few-flowered; spikelets a little more than 2 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, or (in the Ecuador specimens) pubescent, short-pediceled along the outer part of the main branches.