Paspalum loefgrenii

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms 120 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 0.3 mm long. Leaf-blades 40 cm long; 10 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; densely hairy.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes.

Racemes 20; borne along a central axis; unilateral; 8–11 cm long. Central inflorescence axis 20–25 cm long. Rhachis angular; 0.7 mm wide. Spikelet packing 2 -rowed.

Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels flexuous; 1–2.5 mm long.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic, or obovate; with truncate base; dorsally compressed; plano-convex; acute; 2.7–3 mm long; falling entire.

GLUMES Glumes one the lower absent or obscure; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Upper glume ovate; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 5 -veined. Upper glume surface pubescent.

FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; 5 -veined; pubescent. Fertile lemma elliptic; 2.7–3 mm long; indurate; yellow; without keel. Lemma surface granulose. Lemma margins involute. Palea involute; indurate.

FLOWER Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.

DISTRIBUTION South America: northern South America and Brazil.

NOTES Paniceae. Fl Guiana 1995.

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