ABSTRACT
Essai d’une Nouvelle Agrostographie
. 56, t. 12, f. 1. 1812.
Some 33-40 species, New World tropics, pantropical. Panicoideae, Panicodae, Paniceae, or Panicoideae, Paniceae, Paspalinae, annual or perennial, habit variable, sprawling, creeping, caespitose, leafy and herbaceous, mostly stoloniferous, culms often decumbent and rooting from lower nodes, culm nodes hairy or glabrous, culm internodes solid or hollow, the shoots not aromatic, auricles absent or present, leaves lanceolate or linear or short broadly ovate, ligule a fringed or ciliolate membrane, leaf sheaths usually auriculate, plants bisexual, open or contracted inflorescence paniculate and terminal, spikelets solitary or in pairs, laterally compressed spikelets, 2 florets, lower floret male, upper floret bisexual, two glumes keeled and membranous, lower glume 3-to 7-nerved, upper glume 5-to 9-nerved, upper lemma with flat or inrolled margins, callus of upper floret with firm or delicate wings adnate to the base of lemma, palea present, 2 free and fleshy small lodicules broadly cuneate, 3 stamens, ovary glabrous, 2 stigmas red to dark, shade species, grassland, disturbed places, forest shade, forest margin, rain forest, closely related to
Panicum
, type
Ichnanthus panicoides
P. Beauv., see
Species Plantarum
1: 55. 1753,
Essai d’une Nouvelle Agrostographie
56, 57, t. 12, f. 1. 1812,
Systema Vegetabilium
2: 28, 497. 1817,
Agrostografia Brasiliensis
38, 40, t. 1, f. 5. 1823,
De Graminibus Paniceis
52, 159. 1826,
Mémoires de l’Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Pétersbourg. Sixième Série. Sciences Mathématiques, Physiques et Naturelles. Seconde Partie: Sciences Naturelles
3,1(2-3): 195, 320. 1834 and
J. Wash. Acad. Sci.
