Chloris

• 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

  Chloris

• Description

  Description - Spikelets with 1 perfect floret, sessile along a slender rachis, forming unilateral spikes, these digitate or nearly so; glumes unequal; lemma awned or mucronate; rachilla prolonged behind the palea and bearing 1 to few rudimentary awned sterile lemmas.

• Common Names

  fingergrass