Tripsacum andersonii

Culms are stout, up to 3 m tall and 1-5 cm in diamater. Culms develop at a very late stage and Guatemala grass remains leafy for a long time. Leaf blades are up to 120 cm long and up to 10 cm wide, shortly tomentose on the upper surface, under surface and upper leaf sheaths are glabrous. The inflorescences are subdigitate, terminal and axillary, with 3-8 slender, elongated, up to 20 cm long racemes containing male and female spikelets (3-5 mm long). Flowers are mostly sterile.