Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Imperata brasiliensis Trin. Mem. Acad. St. Petersb
VI. 2 : 331. 1832.
Saccharum Sape St. Hil. Voy. Distr. Diam. 1 : 368. 1833.
fmperata Sape Anderss. Oefv. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1855 : 159. 1855.
Syllepis Ruprechtii Fourn. Mex, PL Gram. 52. 1881.
Imperata caudala Chapm. Fl. S. U. S. ed. 2. 668. 1884. Not /. caudata Trin. 1833.
Stems up to 8 dm. tall, usually 3-6 dm.; leaf-sheaths smooth and glabrous, the basal ones at length becoming fibrous ; blades erect, up to 4 dm. long, commonly less than 2 dm., densely hirsute on the upper surface near the base, long-acuminate, narrowed toward the base, less than 1 cm. wide ; panicle up to 2 dm. long, dense, 2-3 cm. in diameter, obtuse, not attenuate at the apex, its branches erect or nearly so ; spikelets 3-4.5 mm. long, the involucral hairs about twice as long.
Type locality : Brazil.
Distribution : Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Isle of Pines, and continental tropical America.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg, Norman Taylor, Nathaniel Lord Britton, John Kunkel Small, George Valentine Nash. 1909. PANDANALES-POALES; TYPHACEAE, SPARGANACEAE, ELODEACEAE, HYDROCHARITACEAE, ZANNICHELLIACEAE, ZOSTERACEAE, CYMODOCEACEAE, NAIADACEAE, LILAEACEAE, SCHEUCHZERIACEAE, ALISMACEAE, BUTOMACEAE, POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
