Paspalum plicatulum |
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brownseed paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous, often indistinctly so. |
Culms | 30-110 cm, stout, erect; nodes glabrous. |
Sheaths | glabrous; ligules 2-3 mm; blades to 35 cm long, 2-5.4 mm wide, conduplicate (rarely flat). |
Panicles | terminal, with 2-7 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.6-7.1 cm, usually divergent, rarely merely ascending; branch axes 0.6-1.1 mm wide, glabrous, terminating in a spikelet. |
Spikelets | 2.5-3 mm long, 1.5-2.2 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic-ovate, light to dark brown. |
Lower glumes | absent; upper glumes usually with short, appressed pubescence, rarely glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire; lower lemmas with short, appressed pubescence or glabrous, 3-veined, margins entire; upper florets dark glossy brown. |
Caryopses | 1.4-1.6 mm, brown. |
2n | = 20, 40, 60. |
Paspalum plicatulum |
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Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; SC; TX; PR; Virgin Islands
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Discussion | Paspalum plicatulum grows in prairies, along forest margins, and in disturbed areas. Its range extends from the southeastern United States through the Caribbean and Mexico to Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 581. |
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Synonyms | P. texanum |
Name authority | Michx. |
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