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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
Species LASIACIS SORGHOIDEA
PlaceOfPublication Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 18:338. 1917.
Synonym Panicum lanatum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 24. 1788. Not P. lanatum Rottb., 1776. Panicum sorghoideum Desv. ex Hamilt. Prodr. P1. Ind. Occ. 10. 1825. Panicum divaricatum var. lanatum Schlecht. & Chamisso, Linnaea 6:33. 1831. Panicum praegnans Steud. Syn. P1. Glum. 1:74. 1854. Panicum lanatum /8. sorghoideum Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 551. 1864. Panicum martinicense Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 552. 1864. Panicum swartzianum Hitchc. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12:140. 1908. Lasiacis swartziana Hitchc. Bot. Gaz. 51:302. 1911.
Description Robust with a strong central cane; culms erect or clambering, 2-7 m. high, freely branching, the main branches as much as 1 m. long, arcuate, drooping, or the branchlets fascicled on the main culm; sheaths papillose-hirsute to glabrate with a densely villous line on the collar, those of the main culm and branches shorter than the internodes, those of the branchlets longer than the intternodes, often somewhat crowded; ligule inconspicuous; blades lanceolate, symmetrical, velvety on both surfaces or nearly glabrous above, those of the main culm as much as 20 cm. long and 3 cm. wide, those of the branches mostly 8-15 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, and those of the ultimate branches frequently much smaller; panicles of the main branches 10-20 cm. long, open and comparatively loosely many- flowered, the panicles of the fascicled and ultimate branches usually much reduced; spikelets 4-5 mm. long.
Common Carricillo
Distribution Thickets, ravines, and forest borders, Mexico and the West Indies to Bolivia and Argentina.
Specimen CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8269, 8270, 8282, 8286, 83II, 83I5; KilliP 4544; Davidson 7I0; Cerro Vaca, Pittier 533I, 5339. CANAL ZONE: Toro Point, Hitch- cock 8054; Chagres, Fendler 37I; between France Field, Canal Zone, and Catival, Panama', Standley 30I53; Gatuin, Hitchcock 9175, 9I77, 9I82; Barro Colorado Island, Standley 40837; Gamboa, Standley 28320; Ancon Hill, KilliP 4028; Piper 528I; Williams 4; Las Cascadas Plantation, Standley 25775, 29523; Summit, Allen 2281; Pedro Miguel, Hitchcock 7955; Red Tank to Pueblo Nuevo, Piper 52I9; between Miraflores and Corozal, Pittier 2I96; Corozal, Killip 4186; Culebra, Pittier 2II8; Standley 25955, 25987, 2600I; Balboa, Hitchcock 8003; Standley 25452, 26065, 293I9; Greenman & Greenman 5052.
 
 
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