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Paspalum minus

Paspalum minus Fourn.  
Family: Poaceae
Matted Crown Grass, more...Matted Paspalum
[Paspalum barretoi Canto-Dorow, Valls & Longhi-Wagner]
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Charles M. Allen, David W. Hall. Flora of North America

Plants perennial; shortly rhizomatous. Culms 3-60 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. Sheaths glabrous or pubescent; ligules 0.2-0.7 mm; blades 8-18 cm long, 2-7.1 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent. Panicles terminal, usually composed of a digitate pair of branches, a third branch sometimes present below the terminal pair; branches 1.8-6.4 cm, diverging to erect; branch axes 0.5-1.3 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. Spikelets 1.9-2.3 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, broadly elliptic to ovate to obovate, glabrous, stramineous, apices obtuse. Lower glumes absent; upper glumes 3-veined, lower lemmas faintly 3-veined; upper florets stramineous. Caryopses 1.8-2.2 mm, white. 2n = 20, 40, 50.

Paspalum minus grows in disturbed areas and on the edges of forests. It grows from southern Texas to Florida in the Flora region; outside the region, it extends through Mexico and the West Indies to Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.

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