Panicum parvifolium Lam.

• 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

  Panicum parvifolium Lam.

• Description

  
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  Description - A slender straggling branching perennial, with culms 10 to 30 cm. tall, oblong-lanceolate blades mostly 1 to 2 cm. long and 3 to 5 mm. wide, ovoid panicles 2 to 4 cm. long, and elliptic glabrous spikelets about 1.5 mm. long, the first glume more than half as long as the spikelet. Our specimens have pubescent blades like the type of Panicum brasiliense.