Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Paspalum minus Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 6. 1881
Stems up to 4 dm. tall, commonly less than 3 dm., glabrous, simple; leaf-sheaths usually ciliate, otherwise glabrous ; blades up to 1.5 dm. long, commonly shorter, 4-6 mm. wide, flat, glabrous, or sometimes pubescent above with short or very long hairs; racemes conjugate, erect or ascending, up to 6 cm. long, the rachis about 1 mm. wide; spikelets 2-2.5 mm. long, 1.5-1.7 mm. wide, oval, glabrous, the first scale wanting, the second and third scales 3-5-nerved, the fruiting scale minutely roughened with longitudinal rows of papillae.
Type locality : Cordoba, Vera Cruz.
Distribution : Cuba and Jamaica ; southern Mexico and Guatemala ; also in Colombia.
- bibliographic citation
- George Valentine Nash. 1912. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
