Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por North American Flora
Imperata hookeri Rupr.; Anderss. Oefv. Sv. Vet.-Akad
Forh. 1855 : 160. 1855.
Imperata caudata Scribn. Bull. Torrey Club 9 : 86. 1882. Not /. caudata Trin. 1833. Imperata brevifolia Vasey, Bull. Torrey Club 13: 26. 1886.
Stems 5-12 dm. tall ; leaf-sheaths smooth and glabrous ; blades up to 5 dm. long and 1 cm. wide, long-acuminate, narrowed toward the base, hirsute on the upper surface near the base; panicle narrow, dense, 1.5-3 dm. long and 2.5 cm. wide, its branches erect, crowded; spikelets 3-4 mm. long, about one third as long as the involucral hairs.
Type locality : Texas.
Distribution : Western Texas to California and Mexico.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
