Saccharum L.

• 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

  Saccharum L.

• 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.

• Discussion

  "By error this appears as I. constricta in the Index Kewensis (Suppl. 1: 222. 1903).