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Hyparrhenia rufa

Hyparrhenia rufa Stapf  
Family: Poaceae
Jaragua, more...Jaragua Grass
[Andropogon bouangensis Franch., moreAndropogon fulvicomus Hochst. ex A. Rich., Andropogon fulvicomus var. approximatus Hochst., Andropogon rufus (Nees) Kunth, Andropogon rufus var. fulvicomus (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Hack., Andropogon rufus var. glabrescens Chiov., Andropogon xanthoblepharis Trin., Andropogon yinduensis Vanderyst, Cymbopogon rufus (Nees) Rendle, Cymbopogon rufus var. fulvicomus (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Rendle, Cymbopogon rufus var. major Rendle, Hyparrhenia altissima Stapf, Hyparrhenia fulvicoma (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Andersson, Hyparrhenia hirta var. brachypoda Chiov., Hyparrhenia parvispiculata Bamps, Hyparrhenia rufa var. fulvicoma (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Chiov., Hyparrhenia rufa var. major (Rendle) Stapf, Hyparrhenia vulpina subsp. longipes A. Camus, Sorghum rufum (Nees) Kuntze, Trachypogon rufus Nees]
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Mary E. Barkworth. Flora of North America

Plants usually perennial; cespitose but with short rhizomes. Culms 30-350 cm. Sheaths glabrous; blades 30-60 cm long, 2-8 mm wide. Peduncles 0.7-7 cm; rames 1.5-2.5 cm, 1 almost sessile, the other with a 6-10 mm stalk, both with 7-14 heterogamous spikelet pairs. Glumes of all spikelets moderately densely pubescent, hairs reddish. Sessile spikelets of homogamous pairs 3-5.5 mm, sessile spikelets of heterogamous pairs 3.2-4.2 mm; lemmas awned, awns 2-3 cm. Pedicellate spikelets 3-5 mm. 2n = 30, 36, 40.

Hyparrhenia rufa is native to the Eastern Hemisphere tropics, but is now established in tropical America. It grows in ditches, pastures, swamps, and pine flatwoods, and along roadsides, in the southeastern United States.

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