plume grass

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plume grass (countable and uncountable, plural plume grasses)

1. A kind of grass, Bothriochloa saccharoides), having spikelets arranged in long silky plumes. It grows in swamps in the Southern United States.
2. A kind of grass, Tripidium ravennae, from the Mediterranean region.
3. Any other grasses from the genus Erianthus, now in genera Saccharum and Lasiorhachis.

• Erianthus (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erianthus (Poaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “plume grass”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Erianthus at The Plant List