Paspalum pubiflorum |
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hairyseed paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; usually decumbent, rooting at the nodes. |
Culms | 30-130 cm, decumbent; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
Sheaths | glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1-3.2 mm; blades to 31 cm long, 4-18 mm wide, flat, glabrous, with a few hairs behind the ligules. |
Panicles | terminal, with 2-7 racemosely arranged branches; branches 2.2-7.9 cm, divergent to spreading, terminating in a spikelet; branch axes 1.1-2.3 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous. |
Spikelets | 2.8-3.6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to divergent from the branch axes, elliptic to obovate, pubescent or glabrous, light brown to stramineous. |
Caryopses | 1.8-2 mm, golden brown or white. |
Lower | glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas glabrous or sparsely pubescent, hairs shorter than 0.1 mm, 3-veined, margins entire; lower lemmas lacking ribs over the veins; upper florets stramineous. |
2n | = 60, ca. 64. |
Paspalum pubiflorum |
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Distribution |
AL; AR; CO; DC; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MD; MO; MS; NC; OH; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA; WV
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Discussion | Paspalum pubiflorum grows on the edges of forests and in disturbed areas. It is native to the southeastern United States, Mexico, and Cuba. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 597. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. pubiflorum var. glabrum, P. geminum |
Name authority | Rupr. ex E. Fourn. |
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