Citation: Stapf, Gdnrs' Chron. ser. 3, 22:378 (1897).

Derivation: An Argentinian name for Cortaderia selloana.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Plants without creeping rhizomes, forming large dense tussocks; leaves mostly crowded at the base of the tall culms.

Spikelets unisexual, the sexes on separate plants, in a panicle which is a handsome plume in the female but glabrous in the male; glumes papery, sometimes shorter than the spikelet, 1-nerved; lemmas awned or slender-pointed, glabrous in the male, long silky-hairy in the female, callus in female long silky-hairy.

Distribution:  15 South American species.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available