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Paspalum underwoodii Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 30 : 375. 1903
J Paspalum millegranum Schrad.; Schultes, in R. & S. Syst. Veg. Mant. 2 : 175. 1824.
A tall perennial with reticulate sheaths, elongate blades, and a, dense panicle. Stems erect, up to 12dm. tall; leaf-sheaths glabrous, the basal ones strongly reticulate, rather abruptly narrowed into the blade, equitant; blades up to 7 dm. long and 1 cm. wide, rough on the lower surface, hirsute on the upper; panicle up to 2.5 dm. long; racemes 12-18, ascending or nearly erect, up to 10 cm. long, the rachis about 1 mm. wide and usually setiferous; spikelets in pairs, 2-2.5 mm. long, about 2 mm. broad, broadly obovate, yellowish-green, usually tinged with purple, glabrous, the first scale wanting, the second and third scales 3nerved, the fruiting sca;le yellowish-white, oval.
Type locality : Along roadsides, Mayagiiez to Joyna, Porto Rico. Distribution : Jamaica and Cuba to Barbados.
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George Valentine Nash. 1912. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Paspalum schreberianum (Fliigge) Nash, sp. nov
Paspahim virgatum Schreberianum Fliigge, Gram. Monog. 190. 1810.
Stems tufted, up to 1 m. tall or more, glabrous, simple; leaf-sheaths glabrous, except the ciliate margin; blades up to 7 dm. long and 12 mm. wide, linear, longacuminate, glabrous, smooth, rough on the margins; racemes commonly 10-15, rarely fewer, erect or ascending, up to 1.5 dm. long, the rachis 1.25-1.5 mm. wide, glabrous; spikelets in pairs, 2.3-2.7 mm. long, 1.5-1.7 mm. wide, glabrous, elliptic to obovate, the first scale wanting, the second 5nerved, the lateral nerves approximate and close to the margin, the third scale about as long as the first, 3-nerved, the fruiting scale yellowish, oval, about as long as the other scales.
Type locality : South America.
Distribution : West Indies ; also in South America.
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George Valentine Nash. 1912. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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