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Panicum glaucum L.

Taxonomic history:
    1753: Linnaeus described this species as Panicum glaucum in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 56.
   today: The current name for this species is Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.


original Latin diagnosis
Panicum spica tereti, involucris bifloris fasciculato-pilosis.

English translation
Panicum with a spike round in cross-section, with involucres two-flowered [and] fasciculate-pilose.


English translation with commentary
Panicum Panicum
with a spike spica - ablative singular of first declension feminine noun spica, -ae
round in cross-section; tereti - ablative singular feminine of group B adjective teres, teres, tere; modifies spica
with involucres involucris - ablative plural of second declension neuter noun involucrum, -i
two-flowered bifloris - ablative plural neuter of group A adjective biflorus, -a, -um; modifies involucris
[and] [added for smoother reading]
fasciculate-pilose. fasciculato-pilosis = fasciculato- (combining form of 2nd declension masculine noun fasciculatus, -i) + pilosis - ablative plural neuter of group A adjective pilosus, -a, -um; modifies involucris



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