Axonopus poiophyllus Chase

Anastrophus poiophyllus (Chase) Nash
Axonopus poiophyllus Chase, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 24: 133. 1911.
A tufted perennial. Stems erect, slender, compressed, up to 1 m. tall, the nodes appressedpubescent ; lower leaf -sheaths villous, the upper ones glabrous or pubescent along the margin ; blades up to 3.5 dm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, firm, erect, linear, folded at the base and boat-shaped at the apex, papillosevillous toward the base; racemes about 3, slender, erect, up to 12 cm. long; spikelets rather distant, about 3 mm. long, flushed with purple, oblong-elliptic, the outer scales a little longer than the fruiting scale, sparsely pubescent at the base and on the margins, 4-nerved by the suppression of the midnerve, the fruiting scale with a tuft of hairs
at the apex.
Type locality : Secanquin, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.