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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 OLIVACEUM
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PlaceOfPublication
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Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 15:225. f. 234. 1910.
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Description
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Perennial; culms 20-40 cm. high, erect or spreading at the base, softly appressed-villous, the nodes bearded; sheaths mostly shorter than the internodes, velvety pilose with spreading hairs; ligule ciliate, 3-4 mm. long; blades 4-7 cm. long, 5-8 mm. wide, the uppermost reduced, stiffly ascending or spreading, rather densely softly pubescent on the lower surface, pubescent or villous on the upper, the margins scabrous; panicles 3-7 cm. long, the axis pilose; spikelets 1.9-2 mm. long, pubescent, the first glume subacute, one-fourth to one-third as long as the spikelet; fruit 1.6 mm. long. Autumnal phase decumbent-spreading, freely branching from the upper and middle nodes, the reduced branches appressed, the blades 1-2 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide.
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Distribution
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Fields, open woods, open or brushy banks and roadsides, southern Mexico to Venezuela.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: El Boquete, Maxon 5I36; Hitchcock 8I89, 8252, 8280; Killip 4525a, 4526, 4556, 4560, 4563.
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