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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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ARUNDINELLA DEPPEANA
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Syn. Pl. Glum. 1:115. 1854.
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Synonym
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Arundinella phragmitoides Griseb. Cat. P1. Cuba, 234. 1866.
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Description
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Coarse perennial; culms erect, 1-2.5 m. high, glabrous; sheaths all much longer than the internodes, rather firm but loose, densely papillose-hispid with appressed hairs, especially toward the summit; ligule membranaceous, about 0.5 mm. long, blades elongate, attenuate, flat, scabrous and sparsely to densely papillose-hispid; panicles 25-70 cm. long, dense, somewhat interrupted below, the slender straight or commonly flexuous branches in dense closely overlapping fascicles, some naked at the base, the lower ones 10-15 cm., or rarely as much as 25 cm. long; spikelets 4-5 mm. long, appressed; glumes acuminate, the first 3-nerved, the second much longer than the first, 5-nerved; sterile lemma acute; awn of fertile floret about 1 cm. long, geniculate, not twisted, slender and flexuous above the bend.
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Distribution
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Dry savannas, thickets and hillsides, Mexico and the West Indies to Brazil.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8307; Killip 45o8; Davidson 802. COCLE: La Venta Beach, Muenscher 12210. CANAL ZONE: Empire to Mandinga, Piper 5254; East Paraiso, Standley 30038; Pedro Miguel, Killip 43I0; Victoria Fill, Allen I714; between Panama and Corozal, Hitchcock 9199; between Fort Clayton and Corozal, Standley 29024; Balboa Heights, Greenman d Greenman 505I. PANAMA: Pacora, Killip 4242; Rio Tecuimen, north of Chepo road, Hunter d Allen 241.
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