Pennisetum latifolium Spreng.

  • 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

    Pennisetum latifolium Spreng.

  • Description

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    Description - Resembling P. tristachyum, less copiously branching, the blades thinner, narrower at the base, more or less scabrous on both surfaces, the panicles 4 to 10 cm. long, greenish, the bristles fewer and stiffer, most of them not exceeding the spikelets, one about twice as long.