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|accepted_name=Chloris berroi
|accepted_authority=Arechav.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Chloris;Chloris berroi
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chloris]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chloris berroi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 207
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 15-80 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> glabrous; ligules ciliate; blades 3-15 cm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose near the base. <b>Panicles</b> with 2-4 branches, these entangled for most of their length, separable only with difficulty, forming a narrow, cylindrical, spikelike inflorescence, individual branches visibly distinct only at the tips; branches 3-12 cm, tightly appressed and adherent, with 9-12 spikelets per cm. <b>Spikelets</b> imbricate, with 1 bisexual and 3 sterile florets. <b>Lower</b> glumes 1.5-2 mm long, about 0.3 mm wide; upper glumes 2.1-2.6 mm long, 0.3-0.6 mm wide; lowest lemmas 2.7-3.5 mm, ovate, margins and keels hairy, hairs to 2 mm, awns 2.7-3.4 mm; second florets about 1.9 mm, glabrous, awned; distal florets unawned. <b>Caryopses</b> 1.2-1.8 mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm wide, trigonous. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|discussion=<p><i>Chloris berroi</i> is native to the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay. It has been cultivated at scattered locations in the United States (Hitchcock 1951), but is not known to be established in the Flora region.</p>
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|authority=Arechav.
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|family=Poaceae
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Chloris
|species=Chloris berroi
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