Paspalum pubiflorum |
Paspalum scrobiculatum |
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hairyseed paspalum |
Indian paspalum, kodo-millet, ricegrass, ricegrass paspalum |
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Habit | Plants perennial; usually decumbent, rooting at the nodes. | Plants annual. |
Culms | 30-130 cm, decumbent; nodes glabrous or pubescent. |
10-150 cm, erect or decumbent; 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 0.3-1.2 mm, often with a row of hairs behind them; blades 5-30 cm long, 2-8(12) mm wide, flat, usually glabrous. |
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 1-5 digitately or racemosely arranged branches; branches 3-10 cm, diverging to spreading, persistent; branch axes 1.5-3 mm wide, broadly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, 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. |
1.8-3.2 mm long, 2-2.3 mm wide, solitary, diverging from the branch axes, ovate, glabrous, olive green to dark, glossy 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 as long as the lower lemmas, 5-7-veined; lower lemmas 3-5-veined; upper florets 2.5-3 mm long, 1.4-1.8 mm wide, dark glossy brown. |
Caryopses | 1.8-2 mm, golden brown or white. |
1.1-1.5 mm, nearly orbicular. |
2n | = 60, ca. 64. |
= 20, 40, 60, 120. |
Paspalum pubiflorum |
Paspalum scrobiculatum |
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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; GA; MD; NJ; TX; HI
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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 scrobiculatium is native to India. It has been found growing in widely scattered disturbed areas of the southeastern United States, possibly as an escape from cultivation. It is grown as a cereal (Kodo) in India. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25, p. 597. | FNA vol. 25. |
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. orbiculare |
Name authority | Rupr. ex E. Fourn. | L. |
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