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Published In: Hooker's Icones Plantarum 33(3): , pl. 3262, p. 6. 1935. (Hooker's Icon. Pl.) Name publication detailView 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.: April-July.
Type: Type: India, Koenig.
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.F.P. & Kashmir); Afghanistan eastwards to Burma and Thailand; China; Philippines.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Eulaliopsis binata is widely collected for paper-making, strings, ropes and mats. It frequents hot dry areas and its extensive underground root-system enables it to survive forest fires. It is not eaten by cattle except in times of hardship.
Illustration: Eulaliopsis binata (Retz.) C.E. Hubb. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-7 Kashmir: Jhelum Valley J. L. Stewart 524 (K); 2000', H. C. Levinge 27366 (K); Hazara dist.: Balakote, Kagan Valley, M. Inayat Khan 20331 (K, RAW); Swat dist.: Mingora, 3000', S. Ali 26054 (K); C-5 S. Waziristan dist.: Wana, Harsukh 15683 (K); C-6 Peshawar dist.: Cherat, J. Lamond 1579 (K); Kohat dist.: Kohat to Bannu, A. Rahman Beg 25832 (RAW); C-7 Rawalpindi dist.: 12-14 miles NE of Rawalpindi, 3000', H.S. Gentry 14036 (K); Rawalpindi-Tret, 2000', R. R. Stewart 23444 (K); D-5 Loralai dist.: Loralai to Harnai, Torkhan Pass, 1400-1900 m, J. Lamond 1248, 1273 (K); Sulaiman Range, between Rakhni and Kingri, K. H. Rechinger 29761 (K); D-6 D. G. Khan dist.: Fort Munro, Sulaiman Range, 1600 m, J. Lamond 1394 (K).

 

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Tufted perennial; basal sheaths woolly tomentose with whitish hairs; culms 45-90 cm high. Leaf-blades mostly basal, up to 60 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous, sometimes villous towards the base, hairy at the mouth of the sheath, rigid, suberect, folded or convolute. Racemes 2-4 cm long, rufously hairy. Spikelets narrowly elliptic-oblong, 3.5-4.5 mm long; lower glume rufously hairy on the margins and with tufts of hair in the middle across the back; upper glume similarly hairy on the margins and with a single tuft in the middle on the back; lower floret male with well-developed lemma and palea; upper lemma with an awn 6-9 mm long.
 


 

 
 
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