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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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MUHLENBERGIA TENUISSIMA
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PlaceOfPublication
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Rev. Gram. 1: Suppl. XVI. 1830.
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Synonym
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Podosaemum tenuissimum Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1:230. 1830
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Description
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Delicate annual; culms very slender, 8-35 cm. long, freely branching, erect to decumbent-spreading, more or less strigose below the nodes; sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous; ligule hyaline, about 1 mm. long; blades 1.5-3.5 cm. long, about 0.5 mm. wide, minutely puberulent on the upper surface, with firm white margins; panicles diffuse, 2-8 cm. long, the branches mostly solitary, fili- form, ascending or spreading; pedicels capillary, 3-5 mm. long, spreading, straight or flexuous; glumes acute or subobtuse, the first 0.4 mm. long, the second a little longer; lemma 1.5 mm. long, sparsely pilose, the slender awn 5 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Dry savannas, Panama.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Sabana of Panama, Pittier 2544. PANAMA: Matias Hernandez, Pittier 69I8; Rio Tecuimen, Standley 294I8; Pacora River, Killip 42I4; between Panama and Chepo, Dodge, Hunter, Steyermark, d Allen I6687. Without locality, Haenke (TYPE).
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