Danthonia domingensis Hack. & Pilg.

Danthonia domingensis Hack. & Pilger, in Urban, Symb Antill. 6: 1. 15 Jl. 1909.
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Culms erect, 30-60 cm. tall, finally forming large dense tussocks raised above the general level of the soU; leaves aggregate at the base, the sheaths pilose at least at the sides at the summit, the blades usually elongate and overtopping the panicles, from rather coarse to subfiliform, involute, scabrous toward the ends; panicle 10-15 cm. long, rather open; spikelets 12-15 mm. long, 3-6-flowered, the rachilla-joints conspicuously villous; glumes 7-12 mm. long, or rarely longer; lemmas villous except the summit, 10-14 mm. long, including the long-awned teeth; terminal segment of the dorsal awn about 1 cm. long; palea narrowed above, reaching to about the base of the cleft of the lemma.
Type locality: Santo Domingo (,Eggers 2227 b).
Distribution: On cleared slopes near the summit of Sir Johns Peak, altitude about 2000 meters, the only known locality in Jamaica, and in the mountains of Hispaniola, altitude 1800 to 2700 meters.