Paspalum vaginatum Sw.

Paspalum vaginatum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ., 21,1788.
Low creeping grass with long horizontal rhizomes. Flowering branches tufted, leafy,
up to 60 or more cm. tall. Leaves up to IS cm. long, conspicuously 2-ranked. Racemes
mostly 2, erect to spreading, mostly about 5 cm. long. Spikelets in two rows, solitary,
ovate-lanceolate.
Occasional in waste areas (10210, 10226). English name, sand knot grass;
native name, motie kcUalahi.
TRUMAN G. YUNCKER HERBARIUM
OF Dl'AUW UNIVERSITY (DPU)
PuneiMSEo by NY in 1987
DEPAUW UNIV,
HERBARIUM.
I HERBARIUM
T. G. YUNCKER
Flora of Niue Island
no. 10210
paspalum vaginatum Sw. (prob.)
On expoBed rocky cliffs near Hateupu
village. Sterile. 10 m. alt. ?'/
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
ited to DPU Herbarium
by T. G. Yuncker
Coll. T. G. Yuncker
dm. fene s CThaee
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