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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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Species
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AGROSTIS VIRESCENS
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Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:135. 1815.
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Description
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Erect tufted perennial; culms 45-60 cm. high; sheaths glabrous, longer than the internodes; ligule 3-5 mm. long, hyaline; innovation blades involute, filiform, soft, those of the culm 6-15 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, flat, scabrous; panicles 10-15 cm. long, green, the branches in rather distant verticils, as much as 6 cm. long, appressed or narrowly ascending, spikelet bearing to the base; spikelets 3 mm. long; glumes acuminate, scabrous on the keel; lemma 1.5 mm. long, the callus glabrous, the awn inserted slightly above the middle, twisted below, geniculate, protruding from the glumes, the exserted portion about 3 mm. long; palea obsolete.
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Distribution
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Paramos at high altitudes, Mexico to Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUf: Volcan de Chiriqui, Pittier 3I03; Woodson d Schery 4I5.
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