View source for Paspalum dissectum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Paspalum dissectum
|accepted_authority=(L.) L.
|publications=
|common_names=Mudbank paspalum
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum dissectum
|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 dissectum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 572
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 10-50 cm, decumbent; nodes glabrous or pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous; ligules 2-2.5 mm; blades to 12 cm long, 1.3-4.8 mm wide, flat. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 2-6 racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.3-5.3 cm, diverging to erect, often arcuate, persistent; branch axes 1.8-3 mm wide, broadly winged, usually conduplicate, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.7-2.1 mm long, 1.1-1.4 mm wide, solitary, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to ovate, glabrous, stramineous. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 5-veined; upper florets stramineous, lemmas glabrous throughout. <b>Caryopses</b> 1-1.3 mm, white. <b>2n</b> = 40, 60.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;D.C;Kans.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum dissectum</i> grows at the edges of lakes, ponds, rice fields, and wet roadside ditches. It is native to the eastern portion of the contiguous United States and to Cuba.</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Paspalum dissectum
|author=
|authority=(L.) L.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Tenn.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;D.C;Kans.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1445.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum dissectum
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Paspalum]]