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Species of flowering plant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lasiacis ligulata is a species of grass found in the Caribbean and Tropical South America.
| Lasiacis ligulata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Panicoideae |
| Genus: | Lasiacis |
| Species: | L. ligulata |
| Binomial name | |
| Lasiacis ligulata | |
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Lasiacis ligulata was described by Albert Spear Hitchcock and Mary Agnes Chase in 1917. The type specimen was collected in Trinidad, between bushes by a stream.[2][3]
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Lasiacis ligulata is a perennial, tuft-forming plant with rambling or climbing, woody culms that grow 1–5 m long and 6–13 mm thick. Leaf-blades are lanceolate, 7–14 cm long and 10–22 mm wide. The inflorescence is a 2–17 cm long panicle with individual spikelets containing one basal, sterile floret and one fertile floret.[1]
The species is found from the Caribbean to northern and western South America, including Brazil.[1]
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