Paspalum candidum (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Flüggé) Kunth

Paspalum scabrum Scribn. Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr
Agrost. 4: 36. 1897.
Stems up to 8 dm. tall, branched below, prostrate and rooting at the lower nodes, veryrough, the nodes appressed-pubescent ; leaf -sheaths very rough, usually longer than the internodes; blades 5-10 cm. long, 10-25 mm. wide, lanceolate, acute, papillose-hirsute, rough on the margins; racemes 30-50, 2-2.5 cm. long, the rachis about 2 mm. wide, rough; spikelets singly disposed in 1 row, white, 1.75 mm. long, obtuse, on short pubescent pedicels, the first and second scales wanting, the third scale thin, hyaline, 3-nerved, a little longer than the fruiting scale.
Type locality : Guatemala.
Distribution : Guatemala.

Paspalum candidum (Fliigge) Kunth, Mem. Mus
Paris 2: 68. 1815.
Reimaria Candida Fliigge, Gram. Monog. 214. 1810.
Stems 6-8 dm. long, branched, prostrate and rooting at the lower nodes, smooth and glabrous; leaf -sheaths smooth and glabrous; blades glabrous or pubescent, paler beneath, rough on the margins, lanceolate to elliptic, acute, 4^8 cm. long and up to 2 cm. wide; inflorescence 8-12 cm. long; racemes numerous, spreading or ascending, 1-2.5 cm. long, the rachis 1.5-2.5 mm-, wide; spikelets white, 2-2.5 mm. long, elliptic, obtuse, the first and second scales wanting, the third scale thin, hyaline, obtuse, 3-nerved, the fruiting scale the same length, elliptic, obtuse.
Type locality : Near Puembo, Ecuador.
Distribution : Guatemala to Costa Rica ; aLso from Colombia to Peru.

Paspalum candidum là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Flüggé) Kunth mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1815.