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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 MOLLE
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PlaceOfPublication
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Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 22. 1788.
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Description
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Annual; culms 15-75 cm. long, erect or ascending, often geniculate and root- ing at the lower nodes, finely pubescent or pilose, especially below the densely pubescent nodes; sheaths softly pubescent, usually shorter but often longer than the internodes; ligule ciliate, about 1 mm. long; blades 5-25 cm. long, 6-20 mm. wide, or sometimes those of the branches smaller, softly pubescent on both sur- faces, the white firm margins scabrous; panicles 5-12 cm. long, the main axis and rachises of narrowly ascending racemes densely pubescent; spikelets 3.5-4 mm. long, rather dense, usually brown or tinged with purple, abruptly pointed, densely pubescent, the first glume broad, acute, half to three-fourths as long as the spike- lets; fruit 2.5-3 mm. long, acute or apiculate, finely transversely rugose.
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Distribution
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Dry or moist ground in fields and waste places, sometimes in brush and open woods, central Mexico to Argentina.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Madden Dam, Bartlett & Lasser 76803. PANAMA: Taboga Island, Hitcb- cock 8067; Chame Point, Hitchcock 8168.
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