Brownseed Paspalum

Paspalum plicatulum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 45. 1803
Paspalum. undulalum, Poir. in Lam. Bncyc. 5 : 29. 1804.
Paspalum plicaium Pers. Syn. PI. 1 : 86. 1805.
Paspalum gracile Le Conte, Jour, de Phys. 91 : 284. 1820. Not P. gracile Rudge, 1805.
Paspalum leplon Schultes, in R. & S. Syst. Veg. Mant. 2 : 173. 1824.
Paspalum tenue Kunth, R^v. Gram. 26. 1829.
Paspalum antille^ise Husnot, Bull. Soc. Linn. Norm. II. 5 : 260. 1870.
A glabrous tufted perennial, with erect usually folded leaf-blades, and somewhat pubescent spikelets. Stems flattened, 4-8 dm. tall; leaf-sheaths compressed, smooth and glabrous; blades 2 dm. long or less, 2-5 mm. wide, usually folded, at least when dry, more or less longhairy above, erect, rather stiff ; racemes 3-7, rarely fewer, spreading or ascending, 3-7 cm. long, the rachis about 1 mm. wide; spikelets in pairs, 2.5-3 mm. long, rarely smaller, and 1.3-1.8 mm. wide, obovate to elliptic, the first scale wanting, the second 5-nerved, with approximate lateral nerves, usually pubescent with appressed hairs, the third scale glabrous, 3-nerved, the margins usually more or less transversely plicate, the fruiting scale seal-brown at maturity.
Type locality : Georgia.
Distribution : Georgia and Florida to Texas and Mexico, and in tropical America.