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Pan Dropseed
Sporobolus ioclados
Sporobolus ioclados, the pan dropseed, is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae. It is native to seasonally dry areas with salty, sandy soils in Africa, Western Asia, and the Indian Subcontinent. A tussock-forming perennial reaching 15 to 90 cm (6 to 35 in), it is an extremophile halophyte. A C4 plant, it has been recognized as a variable but useful forage in saline soils.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 343100.