(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 BOLIVIENSE
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PlaceOfPublication
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Repert. Sp. Nov. (Fedde) 11:19. 1912.
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Description
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Perennial; culms as much as 1.5 m. long, decumbent-spreading, rooting at the lower nodes, the nodes glabrous (rarely minutely pubescent); ligule a ciliate mem- brane, about 0.5 mm. long; sheaths glabrous or papillose-hispid toward the summit, the margins ciliate or nearly glabrous; blades 5-15 cm. long (rarely to 20 cm.), 7-20 mm. wide, acuminate, cordate at the base, glabrous on both surfaces, the margins very scabrous; panicles 10-25 cm. long, loosely flowered, the branchlets spreading, usually secund on the lower side of the ascending branches; spikelets 1.5-1.6 mm. long, glabrous, the first glume acute, about half the length of the spikelet; fruit 1.4 mm. long, subacute.
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Distribution
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Ditches, marshy stream banks, and wet open ground or open woods, Mexico (Veracruz) and Cuba to Paraguay.
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Specimen
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BOCAS DEL TORO: Changuinola Valley, Dunlap I84. COCLE: El Valle de Anton, Seibert 485; Martin 3032. PANAMA: Panama', Hitchcock 8400; La Jagua, Bartlett d Lasser I6988.
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