Paspalum minarum

HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Culms erect; slender; 30–60 cm long. Leaf-sheath oral hairs ciliate. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades flat, or involute; 13–21 cm long; 1–2 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pilose; sparsely hairy. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes.

Racemes 1–7; borne along a central axis; unilateral; 4–10 cm long. Central inflorescence axis 2–8 cm long. Rhachis flattened. Spikelet packing abaxial. Raceme-bases hirsute.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels oblong.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets oblong, or obovate; dorsally compressed; plano-convex; 1.7–2 mm long; falling entire.

GLUMES Glumes one the lower absent or obscure; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Upper glume elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 2 -veined. Upper glume primary vein absent. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Basal sterile florets barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; 2 -veined; without midvein; acute. Fertile lemma elliptic; 1.7–2 mm long; indurate; pallid; without keel. Lemma margins involute. Palea involute; indurate.

FLOWER Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.

DISTRIBUTION South America: Brazil.

NOTES Paniceae. Gr Bahia 1995.

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