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Panicum sellowii

Botanic Family

Poaceae

Author

Nees

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Chiapas
• Veracruz - Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Tropical moist forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Perennial grass with scrambling culms to 1.5m. Glabrous or pubescent leaves to 150mm x 30mm. Panicles to 280mm x 160mm, fertile spikelets to 2.3mm long, lower glumes to 1.5mm, pubescent upper glumes to 2mm long, lower lemma to 2.2mm long, fertile lemma to 1.9mm long, fruit 1.2mm long

Further References

• The Plant List 2
• Kew
• FOPE
• Gleason & Moldenke