Vascular Plants of North Carolina
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Account for Thin Paspalum - Paspalum setaceum var. stramineum   (Nash) D.J. Banks
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Author(Nash) D.J. Banks
DistributionKnown only from 3 counties: Scotland, Bertie, and Washington. The specimens were annotated by D.J. Banks.

Native to west of the Appalachians, scattered records eastward.
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Taxonomic CommentsPaspalum is a genus of more than 300 species, found mostly in the New World. The genus is quite easily identified by the neat row of spikelets along each side of a flattened rachis (inflorescence branch), and also by the hemispherical outline of each spikelet. In some species there are only 2 such inflorescence branches, paired at the stem summit; in most of our species there are 3-4 branches; and in a few there may be many. Keys ask whether spikelets are paired or not -- that is, at each node on each side of the rachis there are pairs of spikelets on tiny stalklets. Care must be taken with a hand lens to make sure there are 2 stalklets at each node, as frequently one of the two spikelets will not grow. Non-paired or single spikelets will clearly have only a single stalklet per node.
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