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|accepted_name=Paspalum dilatatum
|accepted_authority=Poir.
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|common_names=Dallisgrass
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum dilatatum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Paspalum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paspalum dilatatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 579
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, rhizomatous, rhizomes short (less than 1 cm), forming a knotty base. <b>Culms</b> 50-175 cm, erect; nodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pubescent, lower sheaths more frequently pubescent than the upper sheaths; ligules 1.5-3.8 mm; blades to 35 cm long, 2-16.5 mm wide, flat, mostly glabrous, adaxial surfaces with a few long hairs near the base. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 2-7 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.5-12 cm, racemose, divergent; branch axes 0.7-1.4 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.3-4 mm long, 1.7-2.5 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, ovate, tapering to an acute apex, stramineous (rarely purple). <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 5-7-veined, margins pilose; upper florets stramineous. <b>Caryopses</b> 2-2.3 mm, white to brown. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40, 50-63.</span><!--

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|distribution=D.C;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Puerto Rico;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;Md.;Okla.;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum dilatatum</i> is native to Brazil and Argentina. It is now well established in the Flora region, generally as a weed in waste places. It is also used as a turf grass.</p>
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name=Paspalum dilatatum
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|authority=Poir.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=D.C;W.Va.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.;Puerto Rico;N.J.;N.Mex.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Colo.;Calif.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ariz.;Md.;Okla.;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.;Oreg.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum dilatatum
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