Pennisetum

• 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

  Pennisetum

• Description

  Description - Spikelets 1, or rarely 2 together, subtended by a whorl of slender bristles (sterile branchlets), subsessile along a common axis forming bristly spikes, the bristles falling attached to the lanceolate spikelet.