Tropicos | Name - Paspalum orbiculatum Poir.

Paspalum orbiculatum Poir.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/16/2012)

Species	PASPALUM ORBICULATUM
PlaceOfPublication	Lam. Encycl. 5:32. 1804.
Synonym	Paspalum pusillum Vent. ex Fliigge, Monogr. Pasp. 100. 1810. Paspalum serpens Presl ex Trin. Gram. Pan. 102. 1826. Paspalu-m geniculatum Steud. Syn. P1. Glum. 1:18. 1854.Paspalum lenormandi Husn. Enum. Glum. 12. 1871.
Description	Stoloniferous perennial; culms 10-60 cm. long, slender, creeping, rooting at the nodes, the ascending branches 10-25 cm. long, the internodes usually short, the nodes glabrous or appressed-pubescent; sheaths usually shorter than the inter- nodes, compressed, glabrous, the margins ciliate toward the summit; blades 1-6 cm. long, 1.5-7 mm. wide, spreading, glabrous or minutely pubescent; racemes 2-7, approximate, ascending or spreading, 1-2, or rarely 3, cm. long, the rachis narrowly winged, 0.5-0.8 mm. wide, the peduncle included or short-exserted; spikelets 1-1.2 mm. long, ovoid, minutely pointed, glabrous or rarely pubescent, greenish-golden, the margins of the sterile lemma somewhat raised; fruit 0.9-1 mm. long, smooth and shining, chestnut-brown.
Distribution	Moist sandy banks, open ground, and along streams and ditches, southern Mexico and the West Indies to Paraguay
Specimen	BOCAS DEL TORO: Laguna de Chiriqui, Hart 92. COLON: Fato, Pittier 4147; Catival, Standley 30432. CANAL ZONE: Frijoles, Hitchcock 8389; between Gorgona and Taber- nilla, Hitchcock 7966; Bohio, Pittier 3426. PANAMA: Chepo, Pittier 4613.