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mudbank crowngrass, mudbank paspalum

Habit Plants perennial; rhizomatous.
Culms

10-50 cm, decumbent;

nodes glabrous or pubescent.

Sheaths

glabrous;

ligules 2-2.5 mm;

blades to 12 cm long, 1.3-4.8 mm wide, flat.

Panicles

terminal, with 2-6 racemosely arranged branches;

branches 1.3-5.3 cm, diverging to erect, often arcuate, persistent;

branch axes 1.8-3 mm wide, broadly winged, usually conduplicate, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet.

Spikelets

1.7-2.1 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to ovate, glabrous, stramineous.

Caryopses

1-1.3 mm, white.

Lower

glumes absent;

upper glumes and lower lemmas 5-veined;

upper florets stramineous, lemmas glabrous throughout.

2n

= 40, 60.

Paspalum dissectum

Distribution
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AL; AR; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OK; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion

Paspalum dissectum grows at the edges of lakes, ponds, rice fields, and wet roadside ditches. It is native to the eastern portion of the contiguous United States and to Cuba.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 25, p. 572.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum
Sibling taxa
P. acuminatum, P. almum, P. bifidum, P. blodgettii, P. boscianum, P. caespitosum, P. conjugatum, P. conspersum, P. convexum, P. coryphaeum, P. dilatatum, P. distichum, P. fimbriatum, P. floridanum, P. hartwegianum, P. intermedium, P. laeve, P. langei, P. laxum, P. lividum, P. malacophyllum, P. minus, P. modestum, P. monostachyum, P. nicorae, P. notatum, P. paniculatum, P. pleostachyum, P. plicatulum, P. praecox, P. pubiflorum, P. quadrifarium, P. racemosum, P. repens, P. scrobiculatum, P. setaceum, P. unispicatum, P. urvillei, P. vaginatum, P. virgatum, P. virletii, P. wrightii
Name authority (L.) L.
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