Panicum malacon Nash

Panicum malacon Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 197. 1897
Panicum sir icti folium Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 26: 579. 1899.
Vernal phase erect or stiffly spreading, purplish olive-green; culms 30-50 cm. high, pubescent with ascending -hairs, the nodes short-pubescent; leaf -sheaths pubescent like the culms, sometimes sparsely so; blades stiffly ascending or somewhat spreading, 4-12 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, rarely wider, sharply acuminate, scarcely narrowed toward the base, puberulent beneath, puberulent or glabrous above, often villous at or near the margin or base with long hairs; panicles 4-7 cm. long, three fourths to nearly as wide, few-flowered, the branches few, stiffly ascending, the spikelets on long, stiff pedicels; spikelets 3-3.2 mm. long, 1.4-1.5 mm. wide, obovate (oblong before maturity), pubescent; first glume distant, half as long as the spikelet or more, subacute, 5-7-nerved; second glume scarcely equaling the fruit and sterile lemma; fruit short-stipitate, 2.5 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide, elliptic, acute.
Autumnal phase more or less decumbent-spreading, branching from the lower and middle nodes, the branches appressed and later rather sparingly producing appressed fascicled branchlets, the reduced blades stiff, erect, and involute-pointed.
Type locality : Kustis, Florida.
Distribution: Florida.