Gulf Dune Crown Grass

Paspalum monostachyum Vasey; Chapm. Fl. S. U. S
ed. 2. 665. 1883.
Paspalum rectum longispicatum. Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 9 : 54. 1884. Paspalum solitarium Nash, in Small, Fl. SU. U. S. 77. 1903.
A tall perennial with long and stout scaly rootstocks, the scales glabrous, stout stolons, erect rigid stems, and glabrous spikelets. Stems single, rigid, 6-12 dm. tall, sometimes shorter; leaf -sheaths glabrous, or sometimes pubescent on the margin; blades elongate, the larger ones often 3-6 dm. long, longacuminate, rigid, involute, at least when dry, glabrous; racemes single, or rarely in 2's, 1-2 dm. long, the rachis roimded on the back, less than 1 mm. wide; spikelets crowded, 3 mm. long and about 1.5 mm. wide, in pairs on hispid pedicels, elliptic, the first scale wanting, the second and third scales 3-nerved, the fruiting scale yellowish, smooth.
Type locality : Southern Florida. Distribution: Southern Florida and Texas.