Gouinia gracilis Ekman

Gouinia gracilis Ekman; Swallen, Am. Jour. Bot. 22: 2)7). 1935
Culms slender, branching, sprawling, 70 cm. or more long, glabrous; sheaths shorter than the internodes, scabrous or nearly smooth, more or less pilose; blades flat or usually involute, as much as 14 cm. long, not more than 2 mm. wide, scabrous, especially on the margins, pilose on the upper surface near the base; ligule membranaceous, 0.5 mm. long; panicles 5-15 cm. long, the branches stiffly spreading or reflexed, the lower as much as 4.5 cm. long; spikelets 2-3-flowered, short-pedicellate, stiffly and abruptly spreading or reflexed; glumes blunt, the first 2.5-4 mm. long, 1-3-nerved, the second 3.5-4.5 mm. long, 3-7-nerved; lemma 4-6 mm. long, dentate, the teeth sometimes aristate; awns 5-9 mm. long; palea a little shorter than the lemma, the margins densely pubescent.
Type locality: Cerro del Fraile, Holguln, Oricnte, Cuba (Ekman).
Distribution: Thickets, Cuba.