Panicum

• Authority

  Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Panicum L.

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Annuals or perennials, caespitose, decumbent and rooting at nodes, or less commonly rhizomatous. Inflorescence an open panicle, or in some species with racemose branches; spikelets usually disarticulating as a whole from pedicels. Spikelets 2-flowered, plump, terete, biconvex, or somewhat laterally compressed; lower glume short to nearly as long as spikelet, lower floret staminate or sterile, the palea absent to well-developed and as long as lemma; upper floret with lemma indurate, awnless, usually stramineous, glabrous or uncommonly pubescent, smooth or uncommonly rugose, the margins usually inrolled over margins of palea.