Oldfield Grass

Anthephora hermaphrodita (L.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 759. 1891
Tripsacum hertnaphrodiium I^. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1261. 1759. Anthephora elegans Sohr^h. Beschr. Gras. 2: 105. 1810. Anthephora villosa Spreng. Neue Kntdeck. 3 : 14. 1822. ■Cenchrus laevigatus "Trin. Gram. Pan. 74. 1826.
Annual. Stems up to 1 m. tall, often rooting and branching at the lower nodes; leaves glabrous or hirsute; blades up to 2 dm. long and 1 cm. wide, flat; spikes up to 12 cm. long, rarely interrupted below, often long-exserted ; spikelet-clusters, including the stipe at the base, 5-7 mm. long, the first scales broadly ovate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, glabrous ■or hispidulous.
Type locality : Jamaica.
Distribution : Bahamas and tropical America.

Anthephora hermaphrodita is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. The species also goes by the common name oldfield grass.

The species is native to Aruba, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, and Venezuela.