Lasiacis (Griseb.) Hitchc.
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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 open (rarely compact) panicles terminating the culm and leafy branches; spikelets subglobose, placed obliquely on their pedicels; glumes and sterile lemma broad, papery, shining, glabrous, commonly lanate at the apex; fruit white, bony-indurate, obovoid, both lemma and palea bearing at the apex, in a slight crateriform excavation, a tuft of woolly hairs, the palea concave below, gibbous above, the apex often free at maturity; woody-stemmed clambering (rarely crawling) perennials.