Paspalum floridanum |
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Florida paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; rhizomatous. |
Culms | 80-210 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
Sheaths | glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1.2-3.3 mm; blades to 52 cm long, 3-18 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent, usually densely pubescent behind the ligules. |
Panicles | terminal, with 1-6 racemosely arranged branches; branches 3-17.9 cm, divergent to erect, terminating in a spikelet; branch axes 0.3-1.8 mm wide, glabrous, the margins scabrous. |
Spikelets | 2.9-4.1 mm long, 1.9-3.1 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to suborbicular to orbicular, glabrous, stramineous. |
Caryopses | 2.8 mm, amber. |
Lower | glumes absent; upper glumes glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire; lower lemmas glabrous, lacking ribs over the veins, 3-veined, margins entire; upper florets golden brown. |
2n | = 120, 140, ca. 160-170. |
Paspalum floridanum |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; NJ; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion | Paspalum floridanum grows along the edges of forests, flatwoods, and pinewoods and in open areas. It is a frequent component of dry-mesic soils in longleaf pine-oak-grass ecosystems, and is restricted to the eastern United States. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 599. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. longicilium, P. floridanum var. glabratum, P. difforme |
Name authority | Michx. |
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