Lasiacis ligulata

Lasiacis ligulata is a species of grass found in the Caribbean and Tropical South America.
Taxonomy.
"Lasiacis ligulata" was described by Albert Spear Hitchcock and Mary Agnes Chase in 1917. The type specimen was collected in Trinidad, between bushes by a stream.
Description.
"Lasiacis ligulata" is a perennial, tuft-forming plant with rambling or climbing, woody culms that grow 1–5 m long and 6–13 mm thick. Leaf-blades are lanceolate, 7–14 cm long and 10–22 mm wide. The inflorescence is a 2–17 cm long panicle with individual spikelets containing one basal, sterile floret and one fertile floret.
Distribution.
The species is found from the Caribbean to northern and western South America, including Brazil.