Paspalum pubiflorum |
Paspalum plicatulum |
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hairyseed paspalum |
brownseed paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; usually decumbent, rooting at the nodes. | Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous, often indistinctly so. |
Culms | 30-130 cm, decumbent; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
30-110 cm, stout, erect; nodes glabrous. |
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. |
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 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. |
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 | 2.8-3.6 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. |
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 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. |
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 | 1.8-2 mm, golden brown or white. |
1.4-1.6 mm, brown. |
2n | = 60, ca. 64. |
= 20, 40, 60. |
Paspalum pubiflorum |
Paspalum plicatulum |
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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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AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; SC; TX; PR; Virgin Islands
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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.) |
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. 597. | FNA vol. 25, p. 581. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. pubiflorum var. glabrum, P. geminum | P. texanum |
Name authority | Rupr. ex E. Fourn. | Michx. |
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