Schizachyrium semiberbe Nees

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Schizachyrium semiberbe Nees

  • Description

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    Species Description - Perennial; culms glabrous, branched, erect, 6-12 dm. high; leaves glabrous; sheaths compressed, keeled; blades 1-3 dm. long, 2-5 mm. wide; racemes narrow, 5-8 cm. long, the internodes of the rachis as long as the sessile spikelets or shorter, glabrous or nearly so; sessile spikelets 5-7 mm. long, the first scale glabrous or with a few short hairs, its infolded margins touching, the third and fourth scales ciliate, the fourth 2-cleft nearly to the base, its awn 12-15 mm. long; stalked spikelet of one hispidulous scale about 3 mm. long, with an awn about as long.

  • Distribution

    Pine-lands, New Providence : Florida : Cuba : Hispaniola ; Porto Rico ; Trinidad : South America. Recorded by Coker as Andropogon tcner Kunth. Stiff Beard-grass.

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