Eriochloa
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Authority
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Inflorescence of few to many racemes racemose on a common axis ; spikelets subsessile, solitary or paired, the back of the fruit turned from the slender rachis; internode of the rachilla between the first and second glumes thickened, forming a ringlike base to the spikelet, the first glume usually reduced to an obscure sheath adnate to the ring; fruit minutely papillose-rugose, mucronate-pointed or with a delicate, often deciduous awn.