Panicum inaequale

Panicum inaequale Fourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 17. 1881 Syntherisma Jimbriatum Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 25 : 302. 1898. Syntherisma barbatum Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 303. 1898.
Stems 8 dm. long or less, at length prostrate at the base and rooting at the lower nodes; leaf-sheaths densely papillose-hirsute with spreading hairs, rarely glabrous; blades up to 8 cm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent; panicle long-exserted, the axis 2 cm. long or less; racemes 2-9, 2-12 cm. long, erect or ascending, alternate, in pairs or whorls, or various combinations of these, the rachis with the lateral angles winged; spikelets 3-4 mm. long, lanceolate, acute, in pairs on 3-angled pedicels, the first scale minute, triangular, glabrous, the second and third scales pubescent with long hairs which usually become spreading, the second scale 3-nerved, three fifths to four fifths as long as the spikelet, lanceolate-cuneate, the third scale 7-nerved, the fruiting scale elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, yellowishwhite.
Type locality : Brazil.
Distribution : Maryland to Utah, south to Florida and Mexico ; Bermuda ; Bahamas ; also in tropical South America.