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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
Species MUHLENBERGIA attenuata
Description Densely tufted perennial; culms in large clumps 1.8 m. high, erect, glabrous; lower sheaths narrow, elongate, compressed-keeled, scaberulous, the uppermost one 50 cm. long, rounded; ligule thin, lacerate, 1-2 cm. long; blades elongate, attenu- ate, gradually narrowed to a long fine thread-like end, very scabrous; panicle 80 cm. long, partly enclosed in the upper sheath, the long, slender, scabrous branches narrowly ascending, the lower ones as much as 15 cm. long, naked in the lower half, the branchlets appressed; spikelets 2-2.5 mm. long; glumes acute or subacute, as long as or slightly shorter than the floret, very scabrous; lemma 2.5 mm. long, acute, scabrous, the callus short, villous; awn 3.5-4 cm. long, very slender, some- what flexuous.
Distribution Open ground, Panama.
Specimen CHIRIQUf: El Boquete, foothills, 1000-1300 m. alt., Hitchcock 8I74 (U. S. Nat. Herb., TYPE).
 
 
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