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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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ERAGROSTIS TEPHROSANTHOS
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PlaceOfPublication
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Mant. 2:3 16. 1824.
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Description
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Annual; culms slender, erect or geniculate-spreading, 10-30 cm. high; blades lax, flat, acuminate, 4-15 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous; panicles lax, open, 5-12 cm. long, pilose in the axils, the branches spreading, naked at the base, often rather densely flowered; spikelets plumbeous, 4-6 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, 6- to 12-flowered, short-pedicellate, usually somewhat spreading, the first glume 1 mm. long, the second about 1.3 mm. long; lemmas 2 mm. long, subobtuse.
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Distribution
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A common weed in fields and waste places, southern United States and the West Indies to Brazil.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Laguna de Chiriqui, Hart 9i; Bocas del Toro, Carleton 29; Changui- nola Valley, Dunlap 29a. CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8279; Killip 45o6; David, Hitch- cock 8379. COLON: Colon, Rose 23994. CANAL ZONE: Gatuncillo, Killip 4166; Gatuin, Standley 273I9; Frijoles, Killip 4297, 4299; Standley 27652, 3I476; Pittier 6842; Culebra, Hitchcock 7927; Summit, Standley 30080; Balboa, Standley 30900; Bro. Gervasius I; Porterfield IO. PANAMA: Panama', Hitchcock, in 1911.
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