Paspalum scrobiculatum |
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Indian paspalum, kodo-millet, ricegrass, ricegrass paspalum |
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Habit | Plants annual. |
Culms | 10-150 cm, erect or decumbent; nodes glabrous. |
Sheaths | 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 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 | 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 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 | 1.1-1.5 mm, nearly orbicular. |
2n | = 20, 40, 60, 120. |
Paspalum scrobiculatum |
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Distribution |
AL; GA; MD; NJ; TX; HI
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Discussion | 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. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. orbiculare |
Name authority | L. |
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