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|accepted_name=Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. leucothrix
|accepted_authority=(Nash) Freckmann & Lelong
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|name=Panicum leucothrix
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|name=Panicum acuminatum var. leucothrix
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Dichanthelium;Dichanthelium sect. Lanuginosa;Dichanthelium acuminatum;Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. leucothrix
|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>[[Dichanthelium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Dichanthelium sect. Lanuginosa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dichanthelium acuminatum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. leucothrix]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 426
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose, pale olive green, often purplish-tinged. <b>Culms</b> usually 30-100 cm, erect to ascending, sparsely pubescent to almost glabrous, hairs appressed, thin, silvery, papillose-based; nodes sparsely pubescent; fall phase branching extensively from the lower and midculm nodes, with conspicuous, flabellate fascicles of branches and reduced blades. <b>Cauline</b> sheaths shorter than the internodes, sparsely pilose to nearly glabrous, hairs papillose-based, occasionally with shorter soft hairs underneath, margins ciliate; midculm sheaths about 1/2 as long as the internodes; blades usually 2-7 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, relatively firm, ascending, spreading, or reflexed, abaxial surfaces densely and softly puberulent, adaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely appressed-villous, sometimes with a few longer hairs intermixed. <b>Primary</b> panicles open, long-exserted, dense. <b>Spikelets</b> 1.1-1.5 mm, usually ellipsoid, densely short-pubescent.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Dichanthelium acuminatum </i>subsp.<i> leucothrix</i> grows in low, sandy or peaty pine savannahs of the coastal plain. Its range extends through Mexico, the West Indies, and Central America to northern South America. It is closely related, and often sympatric with, the more common, glabrous <i></i>subsp.<i> longiligulatum</i>.</p>
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name=Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. leucothrix
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|authority=(Nash) Freckmann & Lelong
|rank=subspecies
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=Panicum leucothrix;Panicum acuminatum var. leucothrix
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|family=Poaceae
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Dichanthelium
|section=Dichanthelium sect. Lanuginosa
|species=Dichanthelium acuminatum
|subspecies=Dichanthelium acuminatum subsp. leucothrix
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