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|accepted_name=Paspalum floridanum
|accepted_authority=Michx.
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|common_names=Florida paspalum
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|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|name=Paspalum longicilium
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|name=Paspalum floridanum var. glabratum
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|name=Paspalum difforme
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum floridanum
|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 floridanum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 599
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 80-210 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous or pubescent; ligules 1.2-3.3 mm; blades to 52 cm long, 3-18 mm wide, flat, glabrous or pubescent, usually densely pubescent behind the ligules. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 1-6 racemosely arranged branches; branches 3-17.9 cm, divergent to erect, terminating in a spikelet; branch axes 0.3-1.8 mm wide, glabrous, the margins scabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.9-4.1 mm long, 1.9-3.1 mm wide, paired, imbricate, appressed to the branch axes, elliptic to suborbicular to orbicular, glabrous, stramineous. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire; lower lemmas glabrous, lacking ribs over the veins, 3-veined, margins entire; upper florets golden brown. <b>Caryopses</b> 2.8 mm, amber. <b>2n</b> = 120, 140, ca. 160-170.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Pa.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;D.C.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;N.J.;Fla.;Ohio
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum floridanum</i> grows along the edges of forests, flatwoods, and pinewoods and in open areas. It is a frequent component of dry-mesic soils in longleaf pine-oak-grass ecosystems, and is restricted to the eastern United States.</p>
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name=Paspalum floridanum
|authority=Michx.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Paspalum longicilium;Paspalum floridanum var. glabratum;Paspalum difforme
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Md.;Kans.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Pa.;Mo.;Del.;Ala.;D.C.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Ind.;Ky.;N.J.;Fla.;Ohio
|reference=None
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|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum floridanum
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