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|accepted_name=Paspalum coryphaeum
|accepted_authority=Trin.
|publications=
|common_names=Emperor paspalum
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Paspalum;Paspalum coryphaeum
|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 coryphaeum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 586
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, not rhizomatous. <b>Culms</b> 65-400 cm, erect; nodes pilose. <b>Sheaths</b> papillose-hirsute (upper sheaths sometimes glabrous); ligules 1-4.5 mm; blades 30-50 cm long, 10-23 mm wide, flat, with long hairs behind the ligules, otherwise glabrous or puberulent adaxially. <b>Panicles</b> terminal, with (6)15-44 racemosely arranged branches; branches 5-13 cm, straight, spreading to reflexed, rarely merely divergent; branch axes 0.3-0.4 mm wide, narrowly winged, glabrous, margins scabrous, pubescent, terminating in a spikelet. <b>Spikelets</b> 2-2.5 mm long, 1.8-1.9 mm wide, paired, divergent to spreading from the branch axes, elliptic, brown to stramineous, often purple-tinged. <b>Lower</b> glumes usually absent, if present, to 0.9 mm, triangular; upper glumes smooth, papillose-hirsute, 3-veined; lower lemmas smooth, papillose-hirsute or glabrous, 3-veined; upper florets white. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40, 60.</span><!--

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|distribution=N.C.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Paspalum coryphaeum</i> is native from Costa Rica and the Caribbean south to northern South America. In the Flora region, it grows in disturbed habitats at scattered southeastern locations.</p>
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name=Paspalum coryphaeum
|authority=Trin.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
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|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Cindy Roché
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=N.C.;Fla.
|reference=None
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|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1470.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Paspalum
|species=Paspalum coryphaeum
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