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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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BRACHYPODIUM MEXICANUM
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hort. Berol. 1:41. 1827.
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Synonym
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Festuca mexicana Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. 2:732. 1817.
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Description
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Perennial; culms slender, wiry, branching, usually geniculate-spreading, 15-90 cm. long, sparsely pilose, densely bearded at the nodes; sheaths much shorter than the internodes, pilose; ligule 2-3 mm. long, erose-ciliate; blades 5-12 cm. or some- times as much as 20 cm. long, 2-5 mm. wide, scabrous, sparsely to rather densely pilose on the upper surface; racemes 4-12 cm. long, sometimes reduced to one or two spikelets; spikelets 2-2.5 cm. long, 4- to 8-flowered, the pedicels 2-3 mm. long, densely pubescent; glumes subobtuse, the first 6-9 mm. long, the second 8-11 mm. long, glabrous; lemma of lowest floret 8-10 mm. long, scabrous at least toward the summit, the awn mostly 2-5 mm. long, or rarely as much as 1 cm. long.
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Distribution
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Moist thickets and shady banks at higher altitudes, Mexico to Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Volcan de Chiriqui, Woodson, Allen & Seibert I058; Hitchcock 8210.
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