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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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Species
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ANDROPOGON GLOMERATUS (Walt.) B.S.P.
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Prel. Cat. N. Y. 67. 1888.
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Synonym
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Cinna glomerata Walt. Fl. Carol. 59. 1788. Andropogon macrourus Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer. 1:56. 1803. Anatherum macrourum Griseb. Mem. Amer. Acad. (n. s.) 8:534. 1863. Andropogon macrourus var. abbreviatus Hack. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6:408. 1889. Andropogon macrourus var. corymbosus Chapm. ex Hack. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6:409. 1889. Sorghum glomeratum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1. 2:790. 1891. Andropogan virginicus var. corymbosus Beal, Grasses N. Amer. 2:52. 1896. Andropogon glomeratus var. corymbosus Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 7 (ed. 3):15. 1900. Andropogon glomeratus var. abbreviatus Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Bull. 7 (ed. 3):15. 1900. Andropogon corymbosus Nash in Britton, Man. 69. 1901. Andropogon corymbosus abbreviatus Nash in Britton, Man. 70. 1901. Andropogon glomeratus tenuispatheus Nash in Small, Fl. Southeast. U. S. 61. 1903. Andropogon tenuispatheus Nash, N. Amer. Fl. 17:113. 1912.
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Description
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Similar in habit and aspect to A. bicornis; sheaths sometimes appressed-hirsute on the margins and toward the summit; ultimate branchlets densely hairy below the spathes; sessile spikelet 3-4 mm. long, awned, the awn slender, straight, about 1.5 cm. long; pedicellate spikelet very greatly reduced or usually wanting; the pedicel only present.
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Distribution
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Open ground, fields, and grassy banks, often in wet places, southeastern United States and the West Indies to Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8284, 8289; Bajo Boquete, Killip 4567. CANAL ZONE: Toro Point, Hitchcock 8038; Fort Sherman, Standley 31228; Colon, Hitchcock 8033; Barro Colorado Island, Kenoyer 262; Culebra, Hitchcock 7937; Balboa, Standley 25629.
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