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Published In: Essai d'une Nouvelle Agrostographie 26, 147, 178. 1812. (Ess. Agrostogr.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-October.
Type: Type: India, Koenig (LD).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab & N.W. F. P.); India to Burma, Sri Lanka and Australia.
Comment/Acknowledgements: This species is common in the plains. Duthie reports that it is eaten by horses and cattle at Lahore.
Map Location: B-7 Swat dist.: J.J. Norris 76 (K); Hazara dist.: Khanpur, 14 September 1959, R.R. Stewart s.n. (RAW); Darband, B.L. Burtt 1180 (KUH); Kagan Valley, M. Zahur 615 (RAW); Abbottabad, Simla Hill side, 4000', 20 August 1953,1.1. Chaudhri s.n. (RAW); C-7 Rawalpindi dist.: R.R. Stewart 23336 (K), 23337 (K); Topi Park, Rawalpindi, R.R. Stewart 15120 (RAW), 21393 (K); Panjar, R.R. Stewart 28584 (RAW); Rawalpindi to Kahuta near Ling River, B.L. Burtt 1124 (KUH).

 

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Tufted perennial without rhizomes; culms 15-75 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades nearly always involute, up to 30 cm long, occasionally flat and then up to 4 mm wide. Panicle pyramidal or narrowly lanceolate, loose, up to 20 cm long, the primary branches erect or somewhat spreading, 1.5-5 cm long, bare at the base. Spikelets 1.2-1.6 mm long; glumes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, shorter than the spikelet, obtuse, the lower 03-0.5 mm long, the upper 0.6-0.9 mm long; lemma narrowly ovate, as long as the spikelet, acute; anthers 2, sometimes 3, 0.3-0.4 mm long. Grain oblong or elliptic-oblong, 0.6-0.8 mm long, truncate at the tip.
 
 
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