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(Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
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Species
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PANICUM HIRSUTUM
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Ind. Occ. 1:173. 1797.
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Description
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Perennial; culms robust, erect, 1.5 m. or more high, the nodes densely appressed- pubescent; sheaths papillose or papillose-pilose, somewhat inflated; ligule 4-5 mm. long, densely ciliate; blades 30-60 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces, the margins scabrous-serrate; panicles as much as 45 cm. long, the branches narrowly ascending or somewhat spreading, densely flowered, naked toward the base; spikelets 2 mm. long, acute, glabrous, the first glume acute or subobtuse, about half as long as the spikelet.
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Distribution
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Old fields, brushy slopes, forests and swamps, Yucatan, the West Indies, Hon- duras, and Panama.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, DunlaP 37a. SAN BLAS: Puerto Obaldia, Pittier 4374. CANAL ZONE: Gamboa, Standley 28444; Gorgona, Hitchcock 7964; Culebra, Pittier 344I; Bohio, Hitchcock 8392, 8397. PANAMA: Matias Hernandez, Pittier 6943.
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