Chloris cruciata (L.) Sw.

Chloris cruciata (L.) Sw. Prodr. 25. 1788
Agrostis cruciata L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 2: 873. 1759.
Rabdochloa cruciata Beauv. Agrost. 84, 158, 176. 1812. (Based on Agrostis cruciata L.)
Chloris HumboUtiana Steud. Syn. Gram. 205. 1854. (Type from Cuba.)
Chloris brevigluma Wright, Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 8: 200. 1871. (Type from Cuba, Wright 1848.)
Perennial; culms densely tufted, filiform, erect, or geniculate at the base, sometimes decumbent-spreading, branching at the lower nodes, 7-30 cm. tall; sheaths compressed-keeled, glabrous; blades slender, involute, soft, mostly 2-5 cm. long, the uppermost much reduced, glabrous; spikes 2-4, 1-3 cm. long, very slender, spreading or reflexed; spikelets rather distant, spreading, distinctly pedicellate; glumes acute, 1-nerved, the first broader than the second, 1 mm. long, the second about 1.5-2 mm. long; fertile floret 2-2.5 mm. long, the lemma glabrous or with a few hairs on the margins near the summit, the awn slender, mostly 8-10 mm. long, scaberulous; rudiment 1 mm. long, narrow, obtuse, the awn about 6 mm. long, scaberulous.
Typb locality: Jamaica (JSloane).
Distribution: Roadsides and rocky hills, Cuba, Jamaica, and Haiti.

Agrostis cruciata é uma espécie de gramínea do gênero Agrostis, pertencente à família Poaceae.

Chloris cruciata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (L.) Sw. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1788.