Plants perennial; stoloniferous. Culms 15-80 cm, erect; nodes
glabrous. Sheaths glabrous, pubescent distally; ligules 0.5-0.8
mm; blades 7-23 cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat. Panicles terminal,
usually composed of a pair of branches, a third branch sometimes present below
the terminal pair; branches 2.5-12.7 cm, diverging to spreading, often
arcuate, persistent; branch axes 0.2-0.8 mm wide, glabrous, margins scabrous,
terminating in a reduced spikelet. Spikelets 1.3-1.9 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm
wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, ovate, stramineous. Lower glumes
absent; upper glumes pilose on the margins, veinless or 2-3-veined; lower
lemmas glabrous, veinless or 2-3-veined; upper florets whitish to golden
yellow. Caryopses 0.9-1.1 mm, white to yellow. 2n = 18, 20, 40,
80.
Paspalum conjugatum is native to tropical and subtropical regions of both
the Western and Eastern hemispheres. It grows in disturbed areas and at the edges
of forests, and is sometimes used as a lawn grass.
