Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Threat only at high elevations?  no

Other Latin names:  Chloris mollis (Nees) Swallen

Habit:  grass

Description:  "Annual; culms terete, glabrous, erect or somewhat geniculate, 20-100 cm tall; sheaths shorter than internodes, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, margins papillose-ciliate; ligule a row of hairs about 0.5 mm long; blades flat, 5-15 cm long, 2-6 mm wide, scabrous and sometimes sparsely pilose on upper surface; racemes mostly 5-15, 5-10 cm long, somewhat flexuous, ascending or appressed, aggregate on an axis to 5 cm long; spikelets very narrow; glumes acuminate, awn-pointed, scabrous on keel, the first 3-4 mm long, the second 4-5 mm long; fertile floret slender, glabrous except for callus and ciliate upper margins, purplish when mature, 4-5 mm long, scabrous awn 4-6 mm long; rudiment 1-2 mm long, similar to fertile lemma except for for its small size, scabrous awn about 4 mm long"  (Wiggins & Porter, 1971; pp. 836-837).

Description from World Grass Species.

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Central and northern South America (GRIN)

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands) Floreana Group	Floreana Island	probably introduced invasive	Charles Darwin Research Station (2005)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Colombia Colombia	Colombia (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)
Costa Rica Costa Rica	Costa Rica (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)
Ecuador (Mainland) Ecuador	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)
Guatemala Guatemala	Guatemala (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)
Honduras Honduras	Honduras (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)
Nicaragua Nicaragua	Nicaragua (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)
Perú Perú	Perú (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2007)

Comments:  Probably not native to the Galápagos Islands, possibly introduced, per Charles Darwin Research Station.

Additional information:  Additional online information about Enteropogon mollis is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Taxonomic information about Enteropogon mollis may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Charles Darwin Research Station. 2005. CDRS Herbarium records.

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2007. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.