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|accepted_name=Bothriochloa pertusa
|accepted_authority=(L.) A. Camus
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|common_names=Pitted bluestem
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Andropogon pertusus
|authority=unknown
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Bothriochloa;Bothriochloa pertusa
|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 Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bothriochloa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bothriochloa pertusa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 646
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>cespitose or stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> to 100 cm, often decumbent or stoloniferous, freely branching; nodes bearded. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal, green, sometimes glaucous; sheaths glabrous, keeled; ligules 0.7-1.5 mm; blades 3-15 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, flat, margins and ligule regions hairy. <b>Panicles</b> 3-5 cm, fan-shaped, often purplish; rachises 0.2-2 cm, with 3-8 branches; branches 3-4.5 cm, longer than the rachises, usually with 1 rame; rame internodes with villous margins, with 1-3 mm hairs. <b>Sessile</b> spikelets 3-4 mm, lanceolate; callus hairs about 1 mm; lower glumes sparsely hirtellous, with a prominent dorsal pit near the middle; awns 10-17 mm; anthers 1-1.8 mm, yellow. <b>Pedicellate</b> spikelets the same size as the sessile spikelets, sterile, pitted or not, occasionally with 2 pits. <b>2n</b> = 40, 60.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Bothriochloa pertusa</i> is native to the Eastern Hemisphere, and was introduced to the southern United States as a warm-season pasture grass. It now grows in disturbed, moist, grassy places and pastures in the region, at elevations of 2-200 m. It has not persisted at all locations shown on the map.</p>
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name=Bothriochloa pertusa
|author=
|authority=(L.) A. Camus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Andropogon pertusus
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Md.;Tex.;La.;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Miss.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Bothriochloa
|species=Bothriochloa pertusa
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