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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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ELEUSINE INDICA
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fruct. & Sem. 1:8. 1788.
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Synonym
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Cynosurus indicus L. Sp. P1. 72. 1753. Eleusine gracilis Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. 19. 1796. Eleusine domingensis Sieber ex Schult. Mant. 2:3 23. 1824. Not E. donningensis Pers., 1805. Cynodon indicus Raspail, Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. 5:303. 1825. Eleusine scabra Fourn. ex Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Amer. Bot. 3:565. 1885, name only; Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:145. 1886. Eleusine indica var. major Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:145. 1886.
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Description
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Culms in tough spreading clumps, somewhat decumbent at the base, 15-70 cm., or rarely as much as 1 m., high, compressed, very smooth; sheaths compressed, sharply keeled, sparsely papillose near the margins toward the summit, otherwise glabrous, the margins hyaline; ligule membranaceous, erose, about 1 mm. long; blades as much as 25 cm. long, 2-8 mm. wide, flat or conduplicate, the tip navic- ular, glabrous or sparsely pilose on the upper surface, the margins scabrous; spikes 2 to several, 5-10 cm. long, stiffly ascending; spikelets 5 mm. long; lemmas 3 mm. long, broad at the base, rather abruptly narrowed to the subacute apex, sometimes mucronate.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Laguna de Chiriqui, Hart 93; von Wedel 1526. CHIRIQUI: Davld, Killip 4504; El Boquete, Hitchcock 8I80. COCLE: Aguadulce, Pittier 4973. COLON: Porto Bello, Pittier 2479; Colon, Rose 22083. CANAL ZONE: Frijoles, Pittier 3760; Culebra, Hitchcock 79io; Pittier 2II4; Summit, Standley 30078; Ancon, Bro. Celestine 78; Balboa, Standley 26403. PANAMA: Chepo, Pittier 4694; Taboga Island, Hitchcock 8075.
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