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Ditches and wet, rarely brackish places, southern United States to 
Chile; warm regions of Eastern Hemisphere. Common throughout 
the West Indies and to be found on probably all the islands. 
10. Paspalum pubiflorum Rupr.; Fourn., Mex. Pl. 2: 11. 1886. 
Mexico. 
Culms rather robust, decumbent and rooting at base, 40 to 100 cm 
tall; blades flat, usually 10 to 15 em long, 6 to 14 mm wide; racemes 
usually 3 to 5, 2 to 10 cm long, rather thick; spikelets about 3 mm long, 
pubescent (fig. 132), 
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FIGURE 132.—Paspalum pubiflorum. Panicle, X 1; FIGURE 133—Paspalum 
ae of spikelet, and floret, X 10 (Hitchcock lividum. Panicle, X 1; two 
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views of spikelet, and floret, 
X 10 (Arséne 3176). 
Moist open ground, Louisiana to Mexico; Cuba. 
Cusa: Habana, Ekman 10 (Amer. Gr. Nat. Herb. 908), 16800; Léon 
1986. Cerro, Ekman 938. 
11. Paspalum lividum Trin., in Schlecht., Linnaea 26: 383. 1854. 
Mexico. LoneGTom. 
Culms 50 to 100 cm tall, from a decumbent or creeping base; blades 
usually 15 to 25 cm long, 3 to 6 mm wide; racemes usually 4 to 7, 
thick, somewhat flexuous, erect or ascending, 1.5 to 5 cm long; rachis 
1.5 to 2 mm wide, dark livid purple; spikelets 2 to 2.5 mm long (fig. 
1339))p 
Low ground, wet savannas, and swamps, and along streams and 
ditches, southern United States and Mexico to Argentina; Cuba. 
