title: Lasiacis ligulata
text: # 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.
  
  