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1. Pappophorum pappiferum (Lam.) 
Kuntze, Rev. Gen. P1.3?:365. 1898. 
Saccharum pappiferum Lam., Tabl. 
Encycl. 1: 155. 1791. South America. 
The type, with the name in Lamarck’s 
script, was examined in the Lamarck 
Herbarium in Paris in 1935, by A. S. 
Hitchcock. 
Pappophorum alopecuroideum Vahl, 
Symb. Bot. 3:10. 1794. Vahl’s state- 
ment ‘“‘Ad fodinas Insulae Spanish 
Town Americae legit Du. v. Rohr’ 
may refer to Spanish Town, Jamaica, 
but we have no specimens from that 
island. 
Pappophorum laguroideum Schrad.; 
Schult., Mant. 2: 342. 1824. West 
Indies. 
Perennial; culms erect, 1 m or more 
tall; blades elongate, involute; panicles 
silky, pale or whitish, dense, narrow or 
spikelike, 15 to 50 cm long, softly 
bristly with the numerous delicate 
awns (fig. 33).3 ae Soo ie Eee 
Rocky soil, southern Mexico to South 
America and the West Indies. 
Cusa: Vicinity of Habana, Hkman 
952, 13149; Léon 2010, 4151, 9028; 
Hitchcock 254. 
FIGURE 33.—Pappophorum pappiferum. Plant, X 14; spikelet, X 10 (Ekman I 114.)). 
