Paspalum dissectum |
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mudbank crowngrass, mudbank paspalum |
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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 |
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Distribution |
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 |
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Name authority | (L.) L. |
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