Leptochloa dubia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Poales
- Family
- Poaceae
- Genus
- Leptochloa
- Species
- Leptochloa dubia
- Scientific Name
- Leptochloa dubia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Disakisperma dubium
Disakisperma dubium is a species of grass known by the common names green sprangletop and zacate gigante. It is native to the Americas, where it is distributed from the United States to Argentina.
This perennial grass grows up to 110 centimeters tall. The leaves are up to 35 centimeters long and are hairless to hairy or rough in texture. The leaf sheaths are sometimes purplish. The inflorescence is a branching panicle with brown or greenish spikelets.
This grass is a good forage for animals and it is sometimes added to seed mixes used for vegetating rangeland.
...Leptochloa dubia in languages:
- English
- green sprangletop
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Leptochloa anisopoda
- Leptochloa aquatica
- Leptochloa asthenes
- Leptochloa chinensis
- Leptochloa chloridiformis
- Leptochloa crinita
- Leptochloa decipiens
- Leptochloa digitata
- Leptochloa dubia
- Leptochloa ligulata
- Leptochloa malayana
- Leptochloa monticola
- Leptochloa mucronata
- Leptochloa nealleyi
- Leptochloa neesii
- Leptochloa panicea
- Leptochloa panicoides
- Leptochloa pluriflora
- Leptochloa scabra
- Leptochloa southwoodii
- Leptochloa srilankensis
- Leptochloa virgata
- Leptochloa viscida































































































































































