Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 55 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Panics.

Description:
Perennial or annual; leaf blades usually flat; ligule of hairs with or without a membrane.

Inflorescence a panicle; spikelets 1-flowered, dorsally compressed, pedicellate, usually solitary; first glume smaller than the second; rhachilla minute between the glumes; first (sterile) lemma sometimes enclosing a

Distribution:  About 500 species in warm parts of the world.

Biology: No text

Key to Species:

4. Perennial; leaf blade 2-5 mm broad; panicle soon long-exserted	P. effusum 3.
4. Annual; leaf blade 5-15 mm broad; panicle enclosed at the base until maturity	P. capillare 1.
3. First glume to one-third the length of the spikelet, usually more or less truncate; nodes not bearded
5. Lower panicle branches clustered	p. decompositum 2.
5. Lower particle branches solitary
6. Lower floret male; annual, usually glabrous	P. schinzii 6.
6. Lower floret neuter; often perennial, usually hairy on at least the leaf bases	P. whitei 7.

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