Paspalum notatum

Rhizomatous perennial. Culms erect or geniculate, to c. 70 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaf-blades flat, to c. 20 cm long and 10 mm wide, glabrous or the margins sparsely ciliate near the junction the sheaths, smooth or the margins very finely scabrous; sheaths glabrous; ligules ciliate, 0.3–1 mm long. Panicle 5–15 cm long, usually forked with of a pair of racemes to c. 10 cm long, occasionally 1–4 additional racemes present below the terminal pair. Spikelets green or purplish, elliptic, obtuse, 2.8–3.2 mm long, in 2 rows, each inserted at an angle of the regularly flexuous axis; lower glume not developed; upper glume 5-nerved, as long as spikelet, glabrous; lower lemma 5-nerved, equal to upper glume, glabrous; palea of lower floret absent; fertile lemma obtuse, as long as or very slightly shorter than spikelet, slightly rounded dorsally, pale, smooth to very finely striate. Flowers Mar.–May (4 records).