Paspalum hartwegianum E. Fourn.

Paspalum buckleyanum Vasey, Bull. Torrey
Club 13: 167. 1886.
A glabrous perennial with flat leaf-blades and pubescent compressed spikelets. Stems erect, 6-8 dm. tall; leaf-sheaths smooth and glabrous; blades 2 dm. long or less, 2-4 mm. wide, flat, of medium texture, glabrous, rough above, smooth beneath; racemes 2-4, erect, 5-7 cm. long, the rachis 1.5-2 mm. wide; spikelets in pairs, but little convex on one side, often so crowded as to appear as if in 4 rows, 3 mm. long and about 1.5 mm. wide, elliptic, the first scale wanting, the second and third scales 3-nerved, densely appressed-pubescent, the fruiting scale yellowish, slightly convex in cross-section.
Type locality : Texas. Distribution : Texas and Mexico.