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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 HISPIDA
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PlaceOfPublication
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Rev. Gen. P1. 2:761. 1891.
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Synonym
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Andropogon hispidus Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd. Sp. P1. 4:908. 1806. Ischaemum hispidum H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 194. 1816. Arundinella brasiliensis Raddi, Agrost. Bras. 37. 1 823.
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Description
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Erect perennial; culms 1-1.7 m. high, more slender than A. deppeana, glabrous, the nodes densely appressed-pubescent; sheaths mostly shorter than the internodes, papillose-hispid toward the summit or sometimes only papillose; ligule about 0.5 mm. long; blades firm, usually elongate, 5-12 mm. wide, densely hispid, or papillose only; panicles 10-30 cm. long, erect, dense, greenish-purple, the branches narrowly ascending; spikelets 3 mm. long; first glume shorter than or about as long as the sterile floret, the second a little longer, bluntly acuminate; awn of fertile floret about 2 mm. long, tightly twisted below, the twisted part about equaling the sterile floret, the terminal part stiffly spreading
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Distribution
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Wet meadows and grassy hillsides, Panama to Argentina.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8I83, 8320, 832I; Bajo Boquete, Killip 8I83.
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