Chaetochloa geniculata (Lam.) Millsp. & Chase

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Poaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chaetochloa geniculata (Lam.) Millsp. & Chase

  • Description

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    Species Description - Perennial; culms 6-12 dm. long, ascending. Sheaths smooth and glabrous, compressed and keeled; leaves 1-3.5 dm. long, 2-6 mm. wide, pale green or glaucous, smooth or nearly so; spike-like panicle long-exserted, rather slender, 2.5-7 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. thick; spikelets usually single, about 2.5 mm. long and 1.25 mm. wide, the first scale ovate, 3-nerved, about one-half as long as the spikelet, the second scale acute, 3-nerved, the third scale 5-nerved; bristles in two nearly equal clusters of 5 each, very slender, 6-10 mm. long.

  • Discussion

    Distribution and ecology : Waste places, sink-holes, and in the scrub. Abaco, Great Bahama, Berry Islands, Andros, New Providence, Exuma Chain, Acklin's Island, Fortune Island. Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Inagua, and Angullla Isles : Bermuda ; Massachusetts to Kansas, Florida and Texas ; West Indies ; tropical continental America. Referred by Hitchcock and by Coker to Setaria glauca Beauv.; and by Mrs. Northrop to Chaetoehloa glauca. Fox-tail Grass.

  • Distribution

    Abaco, Great Bahama, Berry Islands, Andros, New Providence, Exuma Chain, Acklin's Island, Fortune Island. Caicos Islands, Grand Turk, Inagua, and Angullla Isles : Bermuda ; Massachusetts to Kansas, Florida and Texas ; West Indies ; tropical continental America.

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