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|accepted_name=Dichanthelium erectifolium
|accepted_authority=(Nash) Gould & C.A. Clark
|publications=
|common_names=Florida panicgrass;Erect-leaf panicgrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Panicum erectifolium
|authority=unknown
}}
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Dichanthelium;Dichanthelium sect. Sphaerocarpa;Dichanthelium erectifolium
|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>[[Dichanthelium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Dichanthelium sect. Sphaerocarpa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dichanthelium erectifolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 440
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose, with few culms. <b>Basal</b> rosettes well-differentiated; blades numerous, to 15 cm, lowest blades ovate, upper blades lanceolate, grading into the cauline blades. <b>Culms</b> 30-75 cm, nearly erect, stiff, slightly fleshy or thickened; nodes glabrous, often with a constricted, yellowish ring; internodes glabrous; fall phase with few, long, suberect branches, sparingly rebranched, branches arising mostly from near the base. <b>Cauline</b> leaves 4-7; sheaths shorter than the internodes, mostly glabrous, margins ciliate; ligules 0.2-0.5 mm; blades 5-10 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, stiffly ascending, thick, glabrous, veins evident, bases cordate, with papillose-based cilia, margins whitish, cartilaginous. <b>Primary</b> panicles 5-14 cm, 1/2 - 2/3 as wide as long, exserted. <b>Spikelets</b> 1-1.4 mm, broadly obovoid-spherical, puberulent to subglabrous. <b>Lower</b> glumes 0.2-0.4 mm, acute, upper florets 0.8-1.1 mm, broadly ellipsoid, minutely umbonate. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ga.;La.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Miss.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Dichanthelium erectifolium</i> grows in sand and peat in wet pinelands, bogs, and the shores of ponds. Its range extends from the southeastern Flora region into the Caribbean.</p>
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name=Dichanthelium erectifolium
|author=
|authority=(Nash) Gould & C.A. Clark
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Panicum erectifolium
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Ga.;La.;Ala.;N.C.;S.C.;Miss.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Dichanthelium
|section=Dichanthelium sect. Sphaerocarpa
|species=Dichanthelium erectifolium
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