Plants cespitose, not rhizomatous. Culms to 5 m, glabrous. Blades to 2 m long, 3-25 mm wide, flat or channeled, glaucous and scabrous. Panicles 20-90 cm, compact; primary branches 2-5 cm, considerably shorter than the supporting branches; rame internodes hirsute, hairs to 7 mm. Sessile spikelets 4-6 mm long, somewhat heteromorphic. Sessile spikelets: callus hairs to 2.5 mm, white to gray; glumes equal; lower glumes membranous, pubescent; upper glumes glabrous; lower lemmas oblongelliptic, pubescent; upper lemmas oblongelliptic, ciliate on the margins, acute to shortly awned; awns about 1.3 mm, not visible beyond the glumes; anthers 3. Pedicels shorter than the sessile spikelet. Pedicellate spikelets pilose on the glumes, hairs 4-9 mm. 2n = 20, 22, 40, 60.

Distribution

Puerto Rico

Discussion

Saccharum bengalense is native from Iran to northern India. It is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in the Flora region.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.