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Published In: Flora Atlantica 2: 389, pl. 255. 1799. (Fl. Atlant.) 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: Tunisia, Desfontaines (P).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.F.P., Gilgit & Kashmir); tropical Africa eastwards to India and westwards to North Africa and the Canary Islands.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A common grass of desert areas and dry mountain slopes,
Map Location: A-8 Gilgit Agency: Hunza, June 1954, F. Schmid s.n. (RAW); Baltit, F. Schmid 1924(K); B-6 Chitral dist.: Ziarat, 5000', W. Gatacre 17621 (K); Dir dist.: Dir, S.A. Harris 16795 (K); Dir, 1895, G. Wingate s.n. (K); B-7 Swat dist.: Thana, Malakand to Barikot, 700 m, K.H. Rechinger 30468 (K); below Madian, 4000', R.R. Stewart 24705 (K, RAW); Hazara dist.: above Havelian, R.R. Stewart 10781 (KUH); B-9 Baltistan: Shyok River, E of Kiris, 8000', G.L. Webster & E. Nasir 5898 (K); Kuru to Daghoni, 8000', E. Nasir & G.L. Webster 5916 (RAW); C-6 D.I. Khan dist.: Pezu, M.A. Siddiqi & Zafar Ali 3751 (RAW); Kohat dist.: K.H. Rechinger 30186 (K); Kohat Pass, 900 m, J. Lamond 1537 (K); Kurram dist.: Kurram Valley, Lakman, Khel Tangi, Harsukh 14969 (K); 5 miles from Alizai on way to Parachinar, M. Qaiser & Sultanul Abedin 5852 (KUH); N. Waziristan dist.: Miran Shah, M. Qaiser & Sultanul Abedin 6198, 6200 (KUH); C-7 Rawalpindi dist.: Murree, Saligram, E.W. Trotter 5G (K); Murree Road, R.R. Stewart 12508 (K); Rawalpindi, 1700', R.R. Stewart 13807 (RAW); Rawalpindi, J.E.T. Aitchison 100, 561 (K); Rawalpindi Park, 15 April 1889, G. Wingate s.n. (K); Topi Park, 1700', R.R. Stewart 23345, 25762 (K); Attock dist.: Lala Ruth Garden, Hasan Abdal, Sultanul Abedin 2747 (KUH); Sargodha dist.: Sakesar, J.R. Drummond 14550(K); Jhelum dist.: Kheora, Kabir 15105 (K); D-4 Quetta dist.: Spin Karez near Quetta, 6000', Henry Crookshank 163 (K); Urak, 7000', 11 May 1952, Helen Crookshank s.n. (K); D-5 Zhob dist.: Fort Sandeman, Harsukh 20675 (K); Loralai dist.: Loralai, Mohindar Nath 2058 (RAW); c.3 miles from Rakni on way to D.G. Khan, M. Qaiser 2549 (KUH); D-6 D.I. Khan dist.: Mughal Kot to Daraban, K.H. Rechinger 30003 (K); D.G. Khan dist.: 21 miles from D.G. Khan on way to Fort Munro, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 9648 (KUH); D-7 Lyallpur dist.: Sangla Hill, Sultan Ahmad 2 (RAW); F-2 Makran dist.: c.13 miles from Hoshab on way to Panjgur, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 1071 (KUH); F-3 Makran dist.: Awaran to Hoshab, J. Lamond 345 (K); 18 miles from Awaran on way to Hoshab, Sultanul Abedin 784 (KUH); G-4 Karachi dist.: Mangopir, A. Rahman Beg 25660 (RAW); 2 miles from Hub on way to Sonmiani, S.I. Ali, Sultanul Abedin & A. Ghafoor 1270(KUH); Dadu dist.: 10 miles from Thano Bula Khan on way to Hyderabad, M. Qaiser, A sad Raza & Abrar Hussain 589 (KUH).

 

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Densely tufted perennial with erect 34-noded culms up to 40 cm high; nodes black and prominent. Leaf-blades 2-10 cm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, acute or obtuse; sheaths very strongly flabellate at the base of the culm. Spikes exserted, paired, dorsally adpressed, rarely separating at maturity, 2-8 cm long, pallid or purple-tinged. Spikelets 4-6-flowered, all florets awned, the lowest 1-3 fertile; glumes dissimilar, the lower ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, acuminate, the upper ovate or elliptic-oblong, 3-4 mm long, abruptly acute, obtuse or truncate with the nerve excurrent; lowest lemma ovate-elliptic, 2.511 mm long, with long spreading cilia on the lateral nerves and keel and with an awn 8-10 mm long; upper 2-3 florets sterile and reduced to glabrous lemmas. Grain of lowest floret ovate-oblong.
 
 
 
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