Koeleria Pers.

• 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

  Koeleria Pers.

• Description

  Description - Spikelets 2 to 4-flowered, glumes unequal, slightly shorter than the florets; lemmas awned (in our species).

• Discussion

  The specimens here cited are more or less pubescent and have slender short straight awns just below the apex of some of the lemmas. This form has been described as K. bergii Hieron.