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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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PANICUM CORDOVENSE
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PlaceOfPublication
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Mex. P1. 2:26. 1886.
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Synonym
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Panicum exjansum Fourn. Mex. P1. 2:26. 1886. Icknanthus abiculatus Scribn. U. S. Dept. Agr. Div. Agrost. Circ. 30:1. 1901.
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Description
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Perennial; culms as much as 2 m. long, rather slender, widely spreading or straggling, rooting at the nodes, branching, the branches elongate; sheaths much shorter than the internodes, sparsely to rather densely papillose or papillose-hispid, the margins densely ciliate; blades 5-15 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, sparsely hispid, the midnerve and mar- gins white, very scabrous; primary branches 8-20 cm. long, loosely flowered, the branches ascending or spreading, some long, some short in the same fascicle, the secondary panicles terminal on the branches and branchlets, narrow, much reduced, partly enclosed in the sheath; spikelets 3-3.5 mm. long, usually paired, the pairs rather distant, glabrous or pustulose-pubescent, the first glume subobtuse, two- thirds to three-fourths as long as the spikelet.
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Distribution
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Open or brushy slopes and shady woods, Mexico (Veracruz) to Brazil and Bolivia.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Volcan Chiriqui, Hitchcock 8I96; El Boquete, Hitchcock 827I, 8275, 8303, 8328.
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