(Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
|
|
(Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
|
Species
|
LASIACIS PROCERRIMA
|
PlaceOfPublication
|
Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24:145. 1911.
|
Synonym
|
Panicum procerrimum Hack. Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. 51:431. 1901.
|
Description
|
Culms coarse, semi-woody, 1-4 m. high, erect, single or usually several together in a loose clump, from a woody branching base, the upper internodes very short; sheaths glabrous, sometimes ciliate on the margins, the lower shorter than the internodes, the upper ones closely overlapping; ligule membranaceous, about 1 mm. long; blades 15-40 cm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, often distichous, acuminate, cordate- clasping, glabrous, the margins scabrous; panicles as much as 1 m. long, the lower branches whorled, naked below, ascending or finally spreading, diffuse, as much as 40 cm. long; spikelets 3 mm. long, the lateral ones short-pedicellate.
|
Distribution
|
Wet or moist forests and thickets or brushy slopes, Mexico to Peru.
|
Specimen
|
BOCAS DEL TORO: Laguna de Chiriqui, von Wedel ii86. CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8283. COLON: Fort Lorenzo, Piper 5948. CANAL ZONE: Gatu6n, Hitchcock 7984; between Frijoles and Bohio, Hitchcock 8393; Empire to Mandinga, Piper 5280; Summit, Standley 30ioo; between Pedro Miguel and Corozal, Hitchcock 796i; between Corozal and Ancon, Pittier 6774; Ancon, KilliP 4024; Ancon Hill, Killip I2066; Balboa, Standley 26055; Rowley d Stark 945. PANAMA: Cerro Campana, Bartlett I6902; Arraijan, Wood- son, Allen d Seibert I399; Arenoso, lower Rio Trinid'ad, Seibert 628; Taboga Island, Hitchcock 8o87; Standley 27055; 'Woodson, Allen d Seibert I453.
|
Tag
|
|
Project Name
|
Tag
|
|
|