Bolivia, Plurinational States of; Colombia (Colombia (mainland)); Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras (Honduras (mainland)); Mexico (Chihuahua, Guadalupe I., Nayarit, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacatecas); Panama; Peru; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of (Venezuela (mainland))
Considered a naturalised weed. C4 plant. Loosely clumped. Clums decumbent 4-20cm. Leaf blades 2-5cm llongs. Leaf balde apex attenuate. Florets – fertile meea ovate, laterally compressed. Flower – lodicules 2. Anthers 3. Stigmas 2.
Fruit – Caryopssis with adherent pericarp, biconvex, without sulcus, 1.4mm long.
Open weedy places, roadsides, disturbed forests, slopes rocky.
Family | Poaceae |
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