Comprehensive Description
(
anglais
)
fourni par North American Flora
Tripsacum latifolium Hitchc. Bot. Gaz. 41 : 294. 1906
Stems stout, up to 2-3 m. tall, from stout horizontal rootstocks ; leaf -sheaths glabrous, or pubescent at the apex ; blades up to 7 dm. long and 4.5 cm. wide, long-acuminate, flat, the upper surface pubescent ; spikes on the branches usually single, 1-3 at the summit of the stem, 1-3 dm. long and more slender than in T. dactyloides ', with the pistillate portion 81
2-3 mm. in diameter; staminate spikelets 3-4 mm. long, the outer scales oblong, rounded at the apex.
Type locality : Cubilquitz, Department Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
Distribution : Guatemala and Honduras.
- citation bibliographique
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
