Paspalum

• Authority

  Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Paspalum

• Description

  
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  Description - Inflorescence of 1 to many racemes, these racemes along a common axis; spikelets plano-convex (in a few species unequally biconvex, or concavo-convex), subsessile along a slender or winged rachis, the back of the fruit turned toward it; first glume typically wanting, developed in a few species; fertile lemma and palea chartaceous-indurate (thin in P. saccharides).