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Published In: Boissiera 9: 170. 1960. (Boissiera) Name publication detail
 

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 or December.
Type: Type: Egypt, Delile (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.F.P. & Kashmir); Kenya, Mali and North Africa, eastwards through the Middle East and Somalia to India and Sri Lanka.
Comment/Acknowledgements: The form with an unpitted pedicelled spikelet has been treated as a distinct species (Eremopogon strictus) but Bor (Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 149) has shown that it cannot be satisfactorily distinguished from Dichanthium foveolatum.
Map Location: B-7 Swat dist.: below Kalam, J. J. Norris 175 (K, RAW); C-7 Kashmir: Mirpur dist.: 3000', A. Rashid Khan, E. Nasir & R. R. Stewart 25801 (K); Attock dist.: Sambalpani, Kala Chita Hills, R. N. Parker 3380 (K); Awaran Rest House, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 28 (KUH); Rawalpindi dist.: Margalla, R. R. Stewart 23676 (K, RAW); Topi Park, R. R. Stewart 21387 (K), 25763 (K, RAW), 15110 A (KUH); F-4 Karachi dist.: 16 Km W of Bela, 100 m, K. H. Rechinger 27599 (K); Dadu dist.: Karachi to Dadu, 10-15 Km S of Sehwan, J. Lamond 872 (K); ibid., K. H. Rechinger 28688 (K); G-2 Makran dist.: between Pasni and Kappar, K. H. Rechinger 27874 (K); 34 miles from Turbat on way to Pasni, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza &Abrar Hussain 939 (K); 9 miles from Sunstar on way to Gwadar, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6321 (KUH); G-4 Dadu dist.: near Thano Bula Khan, J. J. Norris 1 (K); Karachi dist.: Drigh Road, 15 March 1955, S. R. B. Rizvi s.n. (KUH); G-6 Tharparkar dist.: Budhe-Sar near Nagar Parkar, M. Qaiser, A. Ghafoor & Abrar Hussain 4155 (KUH).

 

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Tufted perennial with silky hairy basal sheaths; culms ascending, 15-80 cm high, wiry. Leaf-blades very narrow, 1-15 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or rolled, green or glaucous. Inflorescence a solitary raceme subtended by a narrow spatheole, these loosely aggregated on the culms; raceme 1.5-4.5 cm long, with 0-1 smaller homogamous pairs of spikelets at the base. Sessile spikelet narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4 mm long; lower glume cartilaginous, glabrous, shining, with a circular depression in the upper third, acute; upper lemma entire or minutely bidentate, its awn 12-18 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet with or without a pit.
 
 
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