Olyra latifolia L.

• 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

  Olyra latifolia L.

• Description

  
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  Description - A glabrous perennial, bamboolike in aspect, commonly 5 meters tall, with flat, firm, asymmetrically lanceolate-oblong, abruptly acuminate blades commonly 20 cm. long and 5 cm. wide, and ovoid panicles 10 to 15 cm. long, the branches stiffly ascending or spreading, each bearing a single large long-acuminate pistillate spikelet at the thickened summit and several small slender-pediceled staminate spikelets along the branches.