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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Monocots: Commelinids: Poales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Megathyrsus maximus   FAMILY Poaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Urochloa maxima   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Megathyrsus maximus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Grasses of Florida (Hall, 2019)

Urochloa maxima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24 (2007)

Megathyrsus maximus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25 (2003)

Urochloa maxima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Urochloa maxima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)

Panicum maximum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Panicum maximum

 

COMMON NAME:
Guinea Grass


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image of Megathyrsus maximus, Guinea Grass

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Hitchcock, A.S. (rev. A. Chase). 1950    pnd_pama4_001_lvd

        

image of Megathyrsus maximus, Guinea Grass

Keith Bradley    kab_m_maximus_77722

June    Miami-Dade County    FL

Krome Bird Refuge

Panicles 20-50cm long, long rather stiff branches ascending, naked at base, per Manual of the Grasses of the United States (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950).

image of Megathyrsus maximus, Guinea Grass

Keith Bradley    kab_m_maximus_71616

August    Miami-Dade County    FL

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Megathyrsus maximus   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Urochloa maxima   FAMILY Poaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Megathyrsus maximus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Grasses of Florida (Hall, 2019)
Urochloa maxima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 24
Megathyrsus maximus

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 25
Urochloa maxima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Urochloa maxima

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Grasses of the US (Hitchcock & Chase, 1950)
Panicum maximum

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Panicum maximum

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

4017

Grass, Sedge, or Rush
Perennial

Habitat: A wide variety of dry to moist disturbed areas, pine plantations, fruit groves, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Africa

Rare

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal (not forming a winter rosette) & alternate, 2-ranked

RHIZOMES? STOLONS?
Rhizomes short, stout (plants in clumps)

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

Inflorescence an open panicle of usually 20+ primary branches

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall

 

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