Paspalum dissectum

(L.) L.
Common names: Mudbank paspalum
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 572.

Plants perennial; rhizomatous. Culms 10-50 cm, decumbent; nodes glabrous or pubescent. Sheaths glabrous; ligules 2-2.5 mm; blades to 12 cm long, 1.3-4.8 mm wide, flat. Panicles terminal, with 2-6 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.3-5.3 cm, diverging to erect, often arcuate, persistent; branch axes 1.8-3 mm wide, broadly winged, usually conduplicate, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. Spikelets 1.7-2.1 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to ovate, glabrous, stramineous. Lower glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 5-veined; upper florets stramineous, lemmas glabrous throughout. Caryopses 1-1.3 mm, white. 2n = 40, 60.

Distribution

Md., N.J., Tenn., Okla., Miss., Tex., La., Mo., Del., Ala., D.C., Kans., N.C., S.C., Va., Ark., Ill., Ga., Ky., Fla.

Discussion

Paspalum dissectum grows at the edges of lakes, ponds, rice fields, and wet roadside ditches. It is native to the eastern portion of the contiguous United States and to Cuba.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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