Chaetochloa

• 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

  Chaetochloa

• Description

  Description - Inflorescence a dense spikelike (rarely loose) panicle, the spikelets solitary or in small clusters subtended by 1 to several slender scabrous bristles (sterile branchlets), these persistent after the fall of the spikelets; spikelets as in Panicum, turgid, the fruit usually transversely rugose.