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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
Species ISACHNE ARUNDINACEA (Swartz) Griseb.
PlaceOfPublication Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 553. 1864.
Synonym Panicum arundinaceum Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Inc. Occ. 24. 1788.
Description Coarse woody perennial; culms cane-like, clambering, 1-6 m. long, freely branching, the branches drooping, elongate; sheaths of the main culm much shorter than the internodes, those of the branches overlapping, glabrous to papillose- hispid, especially on the margins; ligule ciliate, 2-3 mm. long; blades firm, 10-20 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, acuminate, scabrous, especially on the margins, and some- times shortly hispid; panicles 6-12 cm. long, the branches stiffly ascending or finally spreading, naked toward the base; spikelets 1.5-1.7 mm. long, clustered at the ends of the branches; glumes equal, similar, shorter than the fruit, glabrous or sparsely hispid; fertile florets similar in texture, glabrous on the back, sparsely pilose at the base, the first elliptic, acutish, the second smaller, oblong.
Specimen CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Hitchcock 8277. COCLE: El Valle, Allen II9.
 
 
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