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Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus
Nomenclature
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Family: PoaceaeGenus: Microstegium
Species:
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus
Usage:
accepted
SUMMARY
Lax herb, rooting at nodes, annual, 60-100 cm tall. Leaves lanceolate-linear, 5-8 cm long. Inflorescences with rachises articulate. Spikelets all alike, paired, one sessile, the other pedicellate, flattened, both eventually deciduous, the glumes equal, awnless, the lower one flat, 2-3-veined, the upper one keeled, 3-veined; lemmas 2, hyaline, the lower one sterile, the fertile one often awnless or with slender awn 4-8 mm long.