Description

A perennial, Andropogonoid grass 2 to 4 meters tall, with long rhizomes. Blades50-100 cm long, 10-25 mm wide.

Panicles 40-70 cm long, composed of rames with many sessile-pedicellate spikelet pairs and terminating in a triad of 1 sessile and 2 pedicellate spikelets. Spikelet pairs all appearing similar. Sessile spikelets 3.5-7 mm long. Lower glume glabrous.

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Saccharum spontaneum

Environmental Sciences Program

© Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Saccharum spontaneum

Environmental Sciences Program

© Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute