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|accepted_name=Paspalum fimbriatum
|accepted_authority=Kunth
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|common_names=Winged paspalum;Panama crowngrass
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum fimbriatum
|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 fimbriatum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 577
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 15-70 cm, erect; nodes glabrous or pubescent. <b>Sheaths</b> pubescent, sometimes sparsely so; ligules 1-1.9 mm; blades to 35 cm long, 1.9-16.2 mm wide, flat, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces, margins ciliate basally. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with 2-8 racemosely arranged branches; branches 2-6.4 cm, diverging to erect; branch axes 0.9-1.6 mm wide, winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 2.5-3.5 mm long, 2.4-3 mm wide, paired, appressed to the branch axes, suborbicular, stramineous. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent; upper glumes and lower lemmas 1.9-2.1 mm, ovate, winged, 1-veined, margins ciliate-lacerate; upper florets 1.7-1.9 mm, stramineous. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.9-1.1 mm, orbicular, white. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum fimbriatum</i> has probably been introduced into the United States. Its primary range extends from southern Mexico to Colombia, Venezuela, and French Guiana. In the Flora region, it grows in disturbed areas of Florida.</p>
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name=Paspalum fimbriatum
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|authority=Kunth
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum fimbriatum
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