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|accepted_name=Paspalum boscianum
|accepted_authority=Flüggé
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|common_names=Bull paspalum
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum boscianum
|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>[[Paspalum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Paspalum boscianum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 579
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 15-96 cm, erect or prostrate, often rooting at the lower nodes; nodes glabrous. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous; ligules 1-3.2 mm; blades to 56 cm long, 2.2-15 mm wide, flat. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 1-10(28) racemosely arranged branches; branches 1.2-8.2 cm, diverging; branch axes 0.7-2.3 mm wide, glabrous, broadly winged, wings about as wide as the central portion, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-2.2 mm long, 1.3-1.8 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, glabrous, broadly elliptic, obovate, or orbicular, light to dark brown. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes glabrous, 5-veined, margins entire; lower lemmas glabrous, 3-5-veined, margins entire; upper florets dark glossy brown. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.4-1.6 mm, white. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Pa.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum boscianum</i> grows in moist to dry, disturbed areas, and at the edges of forests. It is native from the southeastern United States through the West Indies and Mexico to Brazil. The California record came from a weed in a rice field.</p>
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|authority=Flüggé
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Pa.;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Va.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum boscianum
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