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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 maxoni
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Description
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Culms coarse, woody, erect or straggling, without a central cane, 1-2 m. long, freely branching, glabrous; lower sheaths shorter, the upper much longer than the internodes, glabrous or with a villous line on the collar; ligule 0.5-1 mm. long, truncate, pale; blades 17-25 cm. long, 11-26 mm. wide, acuminate, gradually narrowed from near the base, glabrous or scabrous on both surfaces, the margins scabrous; panicles 20-35 cm. long, nearly as broad, loosely flowered, the slender to rather stout branches stiffly ascending or sometimes spreading, with a prominent pulvinus in the axils, branching at or near the base, the secondary branches and branchlets all divergent, implicate; spikelets 4 mm. long, in pairs at the ends of the branches and branchlets, pale or often purple.
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Distribution
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Thickets and forest margins, Costa Rica and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, in thickets along wet trail, 1000-1300 m. alt., March 2-8, 1911, Maxon 4999 (U. S. Nat. Herb., TYPE); Hitchcock 828I; between Hato and Cerro Vaca, Pittier 5422.
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