Panicum maximum Jacq.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Culm 1-2 m. tall or more, leafy; leaf-sheaths overlapping, glabrous, or tuberculate-pubescent; blades elongated, 1-4 em. wide, glabrous; panicle 3-6 dm. long, its branches erect or nearly so, very long; spikelets glabrous, 3-4 mm, long, the fourth scale transversely rugose.
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Distribution
In swales and along swamps, New Providence, Eleuthera. Fortune Island, Turks Islands, and Inagua : Bermuda ; Georgia and Florida to Texas ; the West Indies and continental America. Referred by Coker to P. elephantipes Nees. Guinea Grass.
Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| Georgia United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| Texas United States of America North America| West Indies|