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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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Species
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SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 54. 1753.
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Description
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Perennial; culms erect or ascending, as much as 4 m. high, glabrous, the lower internodes short; sheaths overlapping, rounded, glabrous, or softly pubescent toward the summit, densely villous in the throat, the lower ones readily falling away from the culm; ligule firm, dark brown, truncate, minutely ciliate, about 5 mm. long; blades elongate, broad, with prominent midnerve, sharply serrate, densely pubescent or villous on the upper surface at the base; panicles very large, dense, plumy, silvery or pinkish, the long branches drooping; spikelets 4-5 mm. long.
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Common
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Sugarcane Cafia de azuicar.
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Note
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Cultivated throughout tropical regions.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Frijoles, Hitchcock 8390; Balboa, Standley 25640.
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