Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Agrostis ghiesbreghtii Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 97. 1886
Agrostis setifolia Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 97. 1886. (Type from Mount Orizaba, Mexico, Liebmann 712.) Not A. setifolia Brot. 1804.
Perennial; culms slender, erect, glabrous, 50-90 cm. tall; sheaths glabrous; ligule 2-4 mm. long; blades erect, slender or filiform, mostly elongate, usually more or less involute, glabrous or somewhat scabrous; panicle purplish, oblong, open, 15-30 cm. long, the axis glabrous, the branches in distant verticils, glabrous or nearly so, capillary, naked on the lower half, divaricately branched, as much as 10 cm. long, the branchlets few-flowered; glumes acute, about 3 mm. long; lemma about 2 mm. long, awned from about 0.5 mm. above the base, the awn bent, exserted; palea wanting.
Type locality: Oaxaca, Mexico (Ghiesbreght) . Distribution: Southern Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Spear Hitchcock. 1937. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(7). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
