Paspalum scrobiculatum |
Paspalum blodgettii |
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Indian paspalum, kodo-millet, ricegrass, ricegrass paspalum |
Blodgett's crowngrass, coral paspalum |
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Habit | Plants annual. | Plants perennial; cespitose, bulbous; scales pubescent. |
Culms | 10-150 cm, erect or decumbent; nodes glabrous. |
40-100 cm, erect; 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. |
pubescent or glabrous; ligules 0.2-0.4 mm; blades 5-27 cm long, 1.9-8 mm wide, flat, glabrous, pubescent behind the ligules, margins scabrous, often ciliate basally. |
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. |
terminal, with 2-6 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.5-7.5 cm, diverging to spreading; branch axes 0.5-0.8 mm wide, narrowly winged, 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. |
1-1.3 mm long, 0.7-0.9 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, glandular pubescent, stramineous to light or golden 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. |
absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 3-veined; upper florets 0.8-1.1 mm, stramineous. |
Caryopses | 1.1-1.5 mm, nearly orbicular. |
0.9-1.1 mm in diameter, orbicular, amber. |
2n | = 20, 40, 60, 120. |
= 40. |
Paspalum scrobiculatum |
Paspalum blodgettii |
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Distribution |
AL; GA; MD; NJ; TX; HI
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FL; PR |
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.) |
Paspalum blodgettii grows in hammocks, low pinelands, and along roadsides in southern peninsular Florida, the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, southeastern Mexico, and Belize. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 25. | FNA vol. 25, p. 577. |
Parent taxa | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum | Poaceae > subfam. Panicoideae > tribe Paniceae > Paspalum |
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Synonyms | P. orbiculare | |
Name authority | L. | Chapm. |
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