Chaetochloa poiretiana (Schult.) Hitchc.

  • 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 poiretiana (Schult.) Hitchc.

  • Description

    Description - A tall cespitose perennial with compressed culms and sheaths, the internodes sulcate on the side toward the sheaths, thin, strongly plaited blades commonly 50 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, and elongate narrow panicles with slender bristles several times longer than the spikelets.

  • Discussion

    This species was described in the " Grasses of the West Indies " under Chaetochloa sulcata