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Published In: Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 178. 1917. (Fl. Trop. Afr.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Acceptance : Accepted
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Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-November.
Type: Type: Egypt, Forsskal (C).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.FY. & Kashmir); Kenya, Tanzania and Senegal, through the Middle East to Indonesia; introduced to southern Africa, Tropical America and Australia.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Dichanthium annulatum is morphologically and cytologically very variable. For details of its variation see Mehra & Celarier in Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 38: 22-25.1958; Mehra in Fyton 17:157-166. 1961; and Mehra in Caryologia 17:545-556. 1964. The species is an excellent fodder grass eagerly sought by stock.
Illustration: Dichanthium annulatum (Forssk.) Stapf (Illustration)
Map Location: B-6 Peshawar dist.: c.8 miles from Peshawar on Charsadda road, banks of Kabul River, B. L. Burtt B598 (KUH); B-7 Kashmir: about 10 miles from Muzaffarabad, M. Qaiser & Sultanul Abedin 5694 (KUH); Hazara dist.: Balakot, 2-3000', Sh. Ali 219 (K, RAW); narrow valley in hills E of Abbottabad, B. L. Burtt B 664 (KUH); Swat dist.: Madian, 5000', R. J. Rodin 5520 (K, RAW); C-6 D. I. Khan dist.: Tank, near D. I. Khan, 7 April 1970, F. Grohmann s.n. (K); C-7 Rawalpindi dist.: Saidpur, 1900', R. R. Stewart 23669 (K, RAW); Topi Park, 1700, 20 April 1934, R. R. Stewart s.n. (KUH); Attock dist.: Fatehjang, B. L. Burtt B1102 (KUH); C-8 Kashmir: Tauri Valley, 3000', 28 August 1891, G. A. Gammie s.n. (K); D-5 Loralai dist.: Manti Lak on way to Duki, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1526 (K, KUH): about 30 miles from Loralai on way to D. G. Khan, M. Qaiser 2510 (KUH); D-7 Sahiwal dist.: Harappa Museum, M. Qaiser 3589 (KUH); Lahore dist.: 4 miles from Pattoki on way to Multan, M. Qaiser 3581 (KUH); D-8 Lahore dist.: about 10 miles from Lahore on way to Baidyan, M. Qaiser 3553 (K); Sheikhupura dist.: Ladhar, Sultan Ahmad 17 (RAW); E-4 Baluchistan: Yateabad, 3000', Shaharyar Khan 11 (RAW); E-6 D. G. Khan dist.: 4 miles from Rajanpur on way to D. G. Khan, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 9596, 9597 (KUH); F-4 Dadu dist.: Manchar Lake, S. I. Ali, S. A. Faruqi & Sultanul Abedin 256, 257, 258, 259 (KUH); G-2 Baluchistan: coast, November 1880, E. Pierce s.n. (K); G-4 Karachi dist.: 10-20 Km N of Hab Chauki, K. H. Rechinger 28611 (K); near Mosque, Karachi University Campus, 27 April 1967, Y. Nasir s.n. (KUH); near Hawke’s Bay, S. I. Ali & S. A. Faruqi s.n. (KUH); G-5 Hyderabad dist.: 12 miles from Digri on way to Mirpur Khas, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 3626 (KUH); Tharparkar dist.: about 4 miles from Mithi on way to Nagar Parkar, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 3799 (K); G-6 Tharparkar dist.: Budhe-Sar, near Nagar Parkar, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & Abrar Hussain 4110 (KUH).

 

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Perennial; culms 25-100 cm high, geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 3-30 cm long, 2-7 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of (1-) 2-15 subdigitate shortly peduncled racemes, the peduncles glabrous; racemes 3-7 cm long, the spikelets subimbricate with 0-6 smaller homogamous pairs at the base; internodes and pedicels solid. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong, 2-6 mm long; lower glume firmly cartilaginous, slightly concave, pubescent to villous below the middle with long bulbous-based hairs on the margins above, obtuse to subacute; awn 8-25 mm long.
 
 
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