Panicum ghiesbreghtii E. Fourn.

Panicum ghiesbreghtii Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 29. 1886
IPanicum Virletii Fourn. Mex. PL Gram. 29. 1886.
Panicum hirtivaginum Hitchc. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 223. 1909.
Plants in small tufts, rather robust; culms erect, papillose, ascending-hirsute, 60-80 cm. high, the nodes densely hirsute ; leaf-sheaths mostly longer than the internodes, hirsute like the culms; ligule about 2 mm. long; blades erect or ascending, as much as 60 cm. long and 12 mm. wide, flat, not narrowed to the rounded base, papillose-hirsute on both surfaces or glabrescent; panicles short-exserted, nearly equaled by the upper blades,, 20-30 cm. long, usually less than half as wide, the branches ascending, naked at the base, the branchlets more or less appressed, bearing short-pediceled, approximate, but not crowded spikelets 3 mm. long, 1 mm. wide; first glume half to two thirds the length of the spikelet, acute, 3-5-nerved; second glume and sterile lemma strongly 7-9-nerved; fruit 1.9-2 mm. long, 0.9 mm. wide, elliptic.
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution: Mexico and the West Indies to northern South America.