Comprehensive Description
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Anastrophus compressus (Sw.) Schlecht. ; (Doell, in Mart. Fl Bras. 2': 102, as synonym. 1877) Nash, in Small, Fl. SE.
U. S. 79. 1903.
Milium compressum Sw. Prodr. 24. 1788. Paspalum iristachyon Lam. Tab. Eucyc. 1 : 176. 1791. Paspalum platycaulon Poir. in Lam. Kncyc. 5: 34. 1804. Axonopus compressus Beauv. Agrost. 154, 167. 1812. Paspalum, compressum. Rasp. Ann. Sci. Nat. 5 : 301. 1825. Paspalum. laticulmum Spreng. Syst. 1 : 245. 1825. Paspalum. fasiigiatum, Nees, Agrost. Bras. 2t2i. 1829. Paspalum. guadaloupense Steud. Syn. Gram. 18.. 1854. Paspalum Jilostachyum Rich.; Steud. Syn. Gram. 20. 1854. Paspalum, depressum Steud. Syn. Gram. 20. 1854. Anastrophus p la lycaulis Nash, in Small, Fl. SB. U. S. 79. 1903.
A tufted perennial with long creeping leafy stolons, flat and obtuse leaf-blades, and pubescent spikelets. Stems up to 1 m. tall, with one or more leafless branches above; leafsheaths much compressed, keeled, glabrous; blades glabrous or ciliate on the margins, the larger 3 dm. long or less, 3-15 mm. wide, linear to linear-lanceolate, those on the creeping stolons numerous, smaller and crowded; racemes in a pair at the summit of the stem, or sometimes with an additional one a short distance below, 3-10 cm. long; spikelets 2-2.25 mm. long, elliptic, oblong, or ovate, acute or obtuse, the outer 2 scales appressed-pubescent near the margin, 5-nerved, or sometimes 4-nerved by the suppression of the midnerve, the fruiting scale pubescent at the apex with a tuft of hairs.
Type LOCALITY : Jamaica.
Distribution : Virginia to Florida and Texas ; West Indies ; continental tropical America.
- bibliographic citation
- George Valentine Nash. 1912. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
