Eriochrysis warmingiana (Hack.) Kuhlm.

  • 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

    Eriochrysis warmingiana (Hack.) Kuhlm.

  • Description

    Description - An erect cespitose perennial about 1 meter tall, with bearded nodes, narrow, loosely involute blades, and a narrow interrupted panicle about 15 cm. long, the racemes 1 to 2 cm. long, overlapping; spikelets 4 mm. long, acutish, the first glume villous toward the tip.