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

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
Species CENCHRUS PAUCIFLORUS Benth.
PlaceOfPublication Bot. Voy. Sulph. 56. 1840.
Synonym Cenchrus roseus Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:50. 1886. Cenchrus echinatus forma longispina Hack. in Kneucker, Allg. Bot. Zeitschr. 9:169. 1903.
Description Similar in habit and aspect to the preceding but commonly with shorter and narrower blades; spikes usually 3-8 cm. long, short-exserted or partly included in the sheath; burs 3-7 mm. wide, pubescent or nearly glabrous, with no ring of slender bristles at the base, the lobes flat at the base, erect or spreading, sometimes inflexed, usually enclosing two spikelets; spikelets 5-7 mm. long; first glume narrow, about one-third as long as the spikelet; second glume and sterile lemma subequal or the lemma as long as the acuminate fruit.
Distribution Open sandy ground, United States and the West Indies to Argentina.
Specimen PANAMA: Point Chame, Hitcbcock 81r64.
 
 
 
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