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|accepted_name=Leptochloa panicoides
|accepted_authority=(J. Presl) Hitchc.
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|common_names=Amazon sprangletop
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Leptochloa;Leptochloa panicoides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Leptochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Leptochloa panicoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 59
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> (7)45-110 cm, often geniculate below, usually ascending to erect above, rarely branching at the base, often branching distally; internodes hollow. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous, margins occasionally sparsely ciliate on the basal 1/2; ligules 2.2-3.8 mm, membra¬nous, truncate, somewhat erose; blades 4-20 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, both surfaces smooth or scabridulous. <b>Panicles</b> 20-35 cm, with 20-30(90) racemose branches; branches 2.5-7 cm, ascending, mostly stiff. <b>Spikelets</b> 4-5 mm, usually somewhat imbricate, with 4-6(7) florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 0.9-1.9 mm, usually lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acute; upper glumes 1.8-2.3 mm, ovate, acute to obtuse; lemmas 2.4-3 mm, narrowly elliptic to ovate, membranous, midveins and lateral veins sericeous basally, lateral veins prominent, excurrent, apices acute to broadly acute, unawned, sometimes mucronate; paleas glabrous; anthers 3, 0.6-0.8 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.1-1.4 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, elliptic, depressed obovate in cross section. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Va.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Leptochloa panicoides</i> is native from the central Mississippi and Ohio river drainages south through Mesoamerica to Brazil. It usually grows in somewhat mesic habitats. It has been reported from two counties in Texas, but no specimens documenting the reports have been found so they are not shown.</p><!--
--><p>Nicora (1995) merged <i>Leptochloa panicoides</i> with <i>L. scabra</i>, but the two differ consistently in the number of panicle branches, spikelet length, and prominence of the lemma veins.</p>
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name=Leptochloa panicoides
|author=
|authority=(J. Presl) Hitchc.
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Va.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Ala.;Tenn.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Leptochloa
|species=Leptochloa panicoides
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