Homolepis

Homolepis is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family. They are native to Mexico, Central and South America, and the West Indies.

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GENUS

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassLiliopsida
OrderPoales
FamilyPoaceae

Native toArgentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records: 120
With media: 31
Family: Poaceae
Collections: CICY, US, MO, UFPE, CEPLAC, UNB
Recorded in: Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Australia, Costa Rica, Brasil

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Homolepis is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family. They are native to Mexico, Central and South America, and the West Indies.

They are annual or perennial grasses. At least one species has short rhizomes and some have stolons. They vary in form, growing erect or decumbent, the stems reaching 15 centimeters to 2 meters long. They are mostly unbranched. The leaves are linear to lance-shaped to oblong. The panicle is open or narrow with spikelets up to 1.1 centimeters long.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Homolepis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.