Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Muhlenbergia mutica (Fourn.) Hitchcock
Epicampes mutica I'ourn. Mex. PI. Gram. 87. 1886.
Resembling M. gigantea and M. alia; culms tall (base not present in specimen described); sheaths glabrous; ligule thin, 5 mm. long; blades flat, scabrous, 5 mm. wide; panicle erect, loose and open, purplish, about 1 meter long, the axis angled, roughish, the branches slender, naked below, scaberulous, finally spreading, rather distant on the axis, the lower as much as 25 cm. long; glumes equal, acute, ashy-scaberulous, about 2.5 mm. long; lemma glabrous even at the base, scarcely 2 mm. long.
Type ixjcality: Stale of Veracruz (Orizaba, Botleri 101, in part, and others). Distribution: Kwky hills. Slate of Veracruz (Orizaba, Hitchcock 634S).
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Spear Hitchcock. 1935. (POALES); POACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 17(6). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
