Saccharum L.
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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 - Spikelets all perfect, awnless, a ring of long silky spreading hairs at the base of each, one of the pair sessile; rachis articulate, the slender racemes arranged in a large panicle.
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Discussion
"By error this appears as I. constricta in the Index Kewensis (Suppl. 1: 222. 1903).