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(Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/18/2012)
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Species
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LASIACIS RUSCIFOLIA
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PlaceOfPublication
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Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24:145. 1911.
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Synonym
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Panicum ruscifolium H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:101. 1815. Panicum compactum Swartz, Adnot. Bot. 14. 1829. Not P. cormpactum Kit., 1814. Panicum liebmannianum Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:33. 1886. Lasiacis compacta Hitchc. Bot. Gaz. 51:302. 1911. Lasiacis liebmanniana Hitchc. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 24:145. 1911.
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Description
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Very robust with a strong central cane, clambering culms several meters high, usually glabrous, freely branching; sheaths usually shorter, sometimes a little longer than the internodes, glabrous or rarely hispid, the margins glabrous or simetimes villous; ligule inconspicuous; blades usually asymmetrical, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, the primary ones 10-15 cm. long, 3-6 cm. wide, those of the branches, especially the secondary branches, often much smaller, softly pubes- cent to glabrous on the lower surface, the upper surface glabrous or scabrous; panicles 5-20 cm. long, narrow, compact, or the lower branches somewhat distant and spreading, but densely flowered, the whole panicle sometimes open with implicate loosely flowered branches; spikelets 3-4 mm. long, green, nearly globose, at least at maturity.
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Common
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Carrizo
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Distribution
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Forests, thickets, and brushy slopes, West Indies; Mexico to Peru and Argentina.
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Water Valley, von Wedel i856. COCLE: Aguadulce, Pittier 4987, 4998; Rio Mata Ahogado, Allen i42. VERAGUAS: headwaters of Rio Cainazas, Allen I76. HERRERA: Pese, Allen 797. CANAL ZONE: Gatuncillo, Piper 5257; Rio Abajo, Bartlett I6397; Pedro Miguel, Killip 43II; between Panama' and Corozal, Hitchcock 9204; Balboa, Hitchcock 8060; Standley 25258, 25438, 26077, 293I8, 32I34. PANAMA: Matias Her- nandez, Pittier 6892; Chepo, Pittier 4688; Panama', Hitchcock 840I; Standley 26890; Bella Vista, KilliP 4040, 120II; Standley 25302; Punta Paitilla, Standley 30807, 30809; Tropicho Island, Allen 2624; Taboga Island, Hitchcock 8o68; Killip 4I57; Standley 270I7, 27870; Pittier 3603; Allen I37, I290; McBride 2788.
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