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02/5 '95 08: <br />-->13038328106 ECM Pg. 02/03 <br />Tribe: PANICEAE <br />Species: PanicumobtusumH.B.K. <br />Common Name: Vinemesquite (zacate guia) <br />tJle Span: Perennial <br />Origin: Native <br />Season: warm <br />'iDRESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS: <br />type: panicle (3-14 cm long, 5-13 mm witle); primary branches usually <br />unbranched, distant, erect <br />spikelets: 2-flowered (3.2-4.5 mm long), oblong or obovate, blunt, <br />glabrous, hard; tower ttoret usually staminate; upper lemma fertile (2.6-3.6 <br />mm long), elliptic, glabrous, minutely reticulate; pales of lower Iloret often <br />exceeds the lemma <br />awns: none <br />gtumes: subequal, obtuse to rounded, first Blume nearly as long as <br />spikelet, brown a[ maturity <br />VEGETATIVE CHARACTERISTICS: <br />growth habit: cespitose: from long (to 9 m), wiry stolons with woolly <br />nodes <br />culms: erect (20-80 cm tall), knotty base, internodes glabrous, nodes <br />pubescent <br />sheaths: rounded, covers one-half tothree-fourths the Length of the inter- <br />node, glabrous to hispid at collar <br />blades: flat (5-20 cm long, 2-7 mm wide), elongate, while midrib promi- <br />nent abaxially, pilose adaxially at collar; slolon leaves may be strongly vil- <br />lous <br />ligules: membranous (i-2 mm long), truncate, erose <br />GROVVfH CHARACTERISTICS: starts growth in April to May; flowers May to Oc- <br />tober; seeds are slow to disseminate; reproduces from seeds, rhizomes, and <br />stolons; may grow in pure stands <br />FORAGE VALUE: lair to good for livestock and fair for wildlile, withstands <br />heavy grazing; produces fair hay; doves and quail eat the seeds in tall and <br />winter <br />HABITAT: moist depressions that periodically dry out, on banks of rivers <br />and irrigation tlitCheS. and lowland pastures; adapted to a wide range of soil <br />textures. but most abundant on sandy to sandy loam soils <br />t51 <br />