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Paspalum trachycoleon Steud. Syn. Gram. 28. 1854
Stems trailing, branched at the prostrate nodes, up to 1 m. long, hirsute at the nodes, otherwise smooth and glabrous; leaf-sheaths tuberculate-hispid with long spreading hairs; blades up to 2 dm. long and 18 mm. wide, softly pubescent on both surfaces, lanceolate, long-acuminate, papillose-hispid with long hairs near the base; inflorescence 1-1.5 dm. long, the ascending racemes 3-6 cm. long, the rachis up to 5 mm. wide, the wings membranous, yellowish-green, the green veins anastomosing; spikelets 2.5-3 mm. long, the first scale wanting, the second appressed-hirsute below, ciliate on the margins with two kinds of hairs, the one kind stouter than the other, the third scale glabrous, the fruiting scale with a tuft of hairs at the acute apex.
Type locality : Venezuela.
Distribution : Guatemala and Honduras ; also in tropical South America.
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George Valentine Nash. 1912. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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