Coleataenia caricoides (Nees ex Trin.) Soreng

Panicum stenodoides Hubbard, Proc. Am. Acad. 49: 497
1913.
Plants perennial, in dense tufts; culms erect, slender and wiry, glabrous or sparsely pilose below the glabrous nodes, 20-40 cm. high, producing from the upper nodes slender leafless panicle-bearing branches ; leaf -sheaths papillose or more or less papillose-pilose, the lowermost bladeless, glabrous, in age fibrous; ligule membranaceous, about 0.3 mm. long; blades erect, flat at base, involute toward the apex, 3-8 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, more or less papillose or papillose-pilose, at least on the upper surface, sometimes glabrous; panicles short-exserted, usually exceeded by the uppermost blade, about 1 cm. long, narrow, bearing 3-7 spikelets on appressed scabrous pedicels, rarely with a few delicate hairs at the apex of the pedicels ; spikelets 2-2.1 mm. long, 0.9 mm. wide, turgid, attenuate at base, glabrous; first glume about half as long as the spikelet; second glume and sterile lemma subequal, barely covering the fruit, strongly nerved; fruit 1.7 mm. long, 0.8 mm. wide.
Type locality: British Honduras.
Distribution: British Honduras to Panama; also in Trinidad.