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|accepted_name=Saccharum giganteum
|accepted_authority=(Walter) Pers.
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|common_names=Sugarcane plumegrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Erianthus giganteus
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Saccharum;Saccharum giganteum
|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 Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Saccharum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Saccharum giganteum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 611
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 1-2.5 m; nodes sericeous, hairs to 5 mm. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrate or glabrous; auricles absent; ligules 2-6 mm; blades usually 35-70 cm long, 8-30 mm wide, adaxial surfaces glabrous or pilose. <b>Peduncles</b> 40-80 cm, pilose; panicles 6-15 cm wide, oblong or lanceolate; rachises 15-30 cm, pilose; lowest nodes densely pilose; primary branches 2-13 cm, ascending or appressed to the rachises; rame internodes 2-5.5 mm, pilose. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets 4.2-6 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide, straw-colored. <b>Callus</b> hairs (7)15-20(25) mm, longer than the spikelets, straw-colored or brown; glumes usually glabrous; lower glumes smooth, indistinctly 5-veined; lower lemmas 3-5 mm, without veins; upper lemmas 2.5-3.5 mm, 1-veined, entire; awns 12-26 mm, straight or curved, terete basally; lodicule veins sometimes extending into hairlike projections; anthers 2. <b>Pedicels</b> 2.5-5 mm, pilose. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets similar to the sessile spikelets, except frequently pilose. <b>2n</b> = 30, 60, 90.</span><!--

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|distribution=Del.;Fla.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Va.;Md.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Okla.;D.C.;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.
|discussion=<p><i>Saccharum giganteum</i> grows in wet soils of bogs, swales, and swamps. Its range extends from the eastern and southeastern United States to Central America. It is a polymorphic, primarily chasmogamous species that intergrades morphologically with the primarily cleistogamous S. trinii (Hack.) Renvoize in Central America. The combination of long callus hairs and straight awns distinguishes it from all other species of <i>Saccharum</i> in the Flora region.</p>
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name=Saccharum giganteum
|authority=(Walter) Pers.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Erianthus giganteus
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Del.;Fla.;N.J.;Tex.;La.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;N.Y.;Va.;Md.;Ala.;Ark.;Ill.;Ga.;Okla.;D.C.;Mo.;Miss.;Ky.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Saccharum
|species=Saccharum giganteum
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