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Published In: Hooker's Icones Plantarum 25: , pl. 2448. 1896. (Hooker's Icon. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per. March-September.
Type: Type: India, Burman (missing from LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind); Egypt to Mozambique and Madagascar, through Arabia to India and Ceylon.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A grass of coastal sand-dunes.
Map Location: G-4 Karachi dist.: Clifton, S.M.H. Jafri 1540 (K); ibid., Mohd. Salim 60 (RAW); ibid., 14 March 1957, Anwar Iqbal s.n. (KUH); Hawkes Bay, J.J. Norris 129 (K, RAW); Paradise Point, S.I. Ali 229 (KUH).

 

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Tough stoloniferous perennial, the stolons rooting to form dense tussocks; roots thick and tomentose; culms up to 1 m or more high, rigid, woody, branching, producing fascicles of shoots at the nodes. Leaf-blades up to 45 cm long, involute or opening out and up to 4 mm wide, stiff, mostly glaucous. Inflorescence linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1040 cm long, the branches loosely 3-7-spiculate. Spikelets 8-25-flowered, lanceolate to ovate or oblong, 12-26 mm long, 5-7 mm wide, straw-coloured or tinged with purple; glumes narrowly ovate, 6-9 mm long, coriaceous, acute; lemmas lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 7-9 mm long, asperulous or very minutely hairy; callus and rhachilla-tip bearded with white hairs 4-5 mm long.
 
 
 
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