Panicum pyrularium Hitchc. & Chase

Panicum pyrularium Hitchc. & Chase, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb
17: 508. 1915.
Plants annual; culms delicate, 10-13 cm. high, at first erect and simple, finally decumbent and branching, often rooting at the nodes, more or less zigzag, sometimes elongating to 25 or 30 cm.; nodes sparsely pilose or glabrous; leaf -sheaths shorter than the blades, glabrous or sparsely pilose; ligule membranaceous, about 0.5 mm. long; blades thin, flat, spreading, 1-3 cm. long, 2-7 mm. wide (the lower sometimes smaller), narrowly elliptic, somewhat clasping at base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, scabrous on the margins, glabrous or sparsely pilose on both surfaces, sometimes glaucous; panicles terminating the culm and branches, loose and open, 2-5 cm. long, about as wide, oval or pyramidal in outline, the delicate flexuous branches and branchlets spreading or reflexed, smooth, the capillary divaricate pedicels several times longer than the spikelets; spikelets 1.5 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide, turgid, pyriform, long-attenuate at base, glabrous; first glume about half as long as the spikelet, acute; second glume and sterile lemma 5-nerved, not exceeding the fruit, the glume slightly shorter than the sterile lemma; fruit 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, turgid.
Type locality: Province of Chiriquf, Panama. Distribution: Panama to Venezuela.

Panicum pyrularium adalah spesies tumbuhan yang tergolong ke dalam famili Poaceae. Spesies ini juga merupakan bagian dari ordo Poales. Spesies Panicum pyrularium sendiri merupakan bagian dari genus Panicum. Nama ilmiah dari spesies ini pertama kali diterbitkan oleh Hitchc. & Chase.

Panicum pyrularium là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Hitchc. & Chase mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1915.