Soft Paspalum

Paspalum portoricense Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 30 : 377. 1903
A low tufted nearly glabrous slender perennial. Stems about 1 dm. tall, simple, glabrous, with the exception of a few hairs at the nodes; leaf-sheaths glabrous, usually shorter than the internodes and blades; blades 2-6 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, linear, acuminate, usually more or less narrowed toward the base, ascending, flat, rather thin, the upper surface with some long hairs at the very base and a few scattered ones elsewhere, sparingly ciliate, the lower surface glabrous; racemes 1 or 2, slender, erect, about 2 cm. long; spikelets in pairs, elliptic, 1.8 mm. long and 0.7 mm., wide, usually purplishtinged, glabrous, the first scale wanting, the second and third scales 3-nerved, the fruiting scale gr eenishwhite, a little shorter than the outer scales, obtuse.
Type locality : Between Aibonito and Cayay, Porto Rico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.