Compilation
Andropogon scandens

Caespitose, decumbent or erect perennial with distinct short rhizomes; culms up to 200 cm high, woody and persistent, robust, geniculately ascending, simple or branched; nodes exposed and densely barbate; internodes glabrous; leaf sheaths glabrous or sparsely pilose; ligule a glabrous membrane c. 2 mm long; leaf laminas up to 30 cm × 4–4.5 mm, linear-lanceolate, glabrous for most of their length but long-pilose near the ligule. Racemes 2–many, subdigitate, shortly pedunculate, the peduncles glabrous; rhachis internodes and pedicels pilose, sometimes on one side only; the lowermost 1–6 spikelet pairs usually homogamous, male or neuter. Sessile spikelets 2–6 mm long, oblanceolate; inferior glume slightly concave, pubescent below the middle, with long tubercle-based cilia above; superior glume slightly shorter than the inferior, glabrous except for the often shortly ciliate keel and apex; inferior floret barren, the lemma c. 3.8 mm long, ovate, hyaline; superior floret stipitiform, the lemma c. 3 mm long; awn c. 25 mm long, minutely hispidulous on both column and bristle; anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets similar to the sessile spikelets in size and shape, often slightly smaller, male or neuter.