Axonopus laxiflorus (Trin.) Chase

Anastrophus laxiflorus (Trin.) Nash
Paspalum laxiflorum Trin. M€m. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 3^ : 148. 1834. Axonopus laxiflorus Chase, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 24 : 133. 1911.
A tufted perennial. Stems erect, up to 1 m. tall, sometimes with one or more leafless branches from the upper axils; leaf-sheaths cilia te on the margin, glabrous or pubescent; blades up to 2 dm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, commonly folded, glabrous, or the upper surface somewhat hairy, sometimes ciliate toward the base; racemes 3-7, 3-12 cm. long, sometimes only 2 or 3 and digitate, the others when present scattered below; spikelets 2.5 mm. long, the scales about equal in length, the outer ones pubescent with long hairs, usually 4or 6-nerved by the suppression of the midnerve, the fruiting scale ellipticoblong, obtuse, with a, tuft of hairs at the apex.
Type locality : Brazil.
Distribution: Oaxaca to Guatemala ; also in Brazil.