Chloris dandyana var. breviaristata (Hack.) A.M. Molina & Rúgolo:
Paraguay (South America)
Argentina (South America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

Chloris polydactyla var. breviaristata Hack.:
Argentina (South America)
Uruguay (South America)

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Chloris polydactyla fo. pauciradiata Kurtz:
Argentina (South America)

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Chloris elata Desv.:
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Ecuador (South America)
Peru (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
Uruguay (South America)
United States (North America)
Venezuela (South America)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Suriname (South America)
Guyana (South America)
Argentina (South America)

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Chloris dandyana C.D. Adams:
Argentina (South America)
Bolivia (South America)
Brazil (South America)
United States (North America)
Guyana (South America)
Peru (South America)
Colombia (South America)
Ecuador (South America)
Uruguay (South America)
Paraguay (South America)
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
Caribbean (Caribbean)
Venezuela (South America)

Note: This information is based on publications available through Tropicos and may not represent the entire distribution. Tropicos does not categorize distributions as native or non-native.

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Global Range: Southern Florida/US; Greater Antilles, including Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Grand Cayman; Lesser Antilles (Antigua only); South America to Brazil, including Guyana (but not French Guiana or Surinam).

Perennials, Terrestrial, not aquatic, Stolons or runners present, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems erect or ascending, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stem internodes solid or spongy, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems with inflorescence 1-2 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf s heath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath or blade keeled, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades 1-2 cm wide, Leaf blades mostly flat, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades scabrous, roughened, or wrinkled, Ligule present, Ligule a fringed, ciliate, or lobed membrane, Inflorescence terminal, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence lax, widely spreading, branches drooping, pendulous, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence a panicle with digitately arranged spicate branches, Inflorescence with 2-10 branches, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Inflorescence branches 1-sided, Lower panicle branches whorled, Inflorescence branches paired or digitate at a single node, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets sessile or subsessile, Spikelets laterally compressed, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelet with 1 fertile floret and 1-2 sterile florets, Spikelets solitary at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating above the glumes, glumes persistent, Spikelets disarticulating beneath or between the florets, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glumes shorter than adjacent lemma, Glumes keeled or winged, Glumes 1 nerved, Lemma similar in texture to glumes, Lemma 3 nerved, Lemma body or surface hairy, Lemma apex acute or acuminate, Lemma mucronate, very shortly beaked or awned, less than 1-2 mm, Lemma distinctly awned, more than 2-3 mm, Lemma with 1 awn, Lemma awn less than 1 cm long, Lemma awn subapical or dorsal, Lemma awns straight or curved to base, Lemma margins thin, lying flat, Lemma straight, Callus or base of lemma evidently hairy, Callus hairs shorter than lemma, Palea present, well developed, Palea shorter than lemma, Palea 2 nerved or 2 keeled, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis, Caryopsis ellipsoid, longitudinally grooved, hilum long-linear.

Type fragment for Chloris arundinacea Nees ex Steud.
Catalog Number: US 2830894
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): F. Sellow
Locality: Brazil, South America

Isotype for Chloris polydactyla f. stolonifera Parodi
Catalog Number: US 1539641
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): L. R. Parodi
Year Collected: 1932
Locality: Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

Type fragment for Andropogon polydactylon L.
Catalog Number: US 2830895
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): -- Brown
Locality: Greater Antilles, Jamaica, West Indies

Comments: In Jamaica, open slopes, swamp margins and roadsides, sea level to 1400ft (427m). In Antigua, open grasslands at low elevations.

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

Rounded Global Status Rank: G4 - Apparently Secure

Reasons: Found in the Greater Antilles, including Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Grand Cayman; Antigua in the Lesser Antilles; South America to Brazil, including Guyana, but not French Guiana or Surinam. In Jamaica, rather local, more frequent in the western parishes on open slopes, swamp margins, and roadsides, sea level to 1400 ft (427m). In Antigua, found on open grasslands at low elevations. Believed to be exotic in the US (Kartesz 1993).