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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 STENODOIDES
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Proc. Amer. Acad. 49:497. 1913.
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Description
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Perennial; culms 20-40 cm. high, densely tufted, slender, erect with slender leafless panicle-bearing branches from the upper nodes; sheaths papillose-pilose or nearly glabrous, the lowermost bladeless, becoming fibrous; ligule scarcely 0.5 mm. long, membranaceous, minutely ciliate; blades 3-8 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, involute at least toward the tip, papillose-pilose or sometimes glabrous; panicles about 1 cm. long, narrow, short-exserted, bearing 3-7 appressed spikelets; spike- lets 2-2.1 mm. long, attenuate at the base, the first glume acute, about half as long as the spikelet; fruit 1.7 mm. long.
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Distribution
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Moist wet open grassland, British Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, and Brazil.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Frijoles, Killip 4346; between Panama and Corozal, Hitchcock 9207; Rio Azote Caballo, Dodge, Steyermark d Allen I6850. PANAMA: Chorrera, Hitchcock 8I47.
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