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Published In: Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 36: 250. 1889. (Bull. Soc. Bot. France) 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.: October-May.
Type: Type: North Africa, Letourneux (K, P)
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind); North Africa, Arabia and Northwest India.
Comment/Acknowledgements: A tough desert grass often forming dense, low-growing cushions. Its economic importance in Asia is not known but in Africa it is grazed by all stock, especially sheep and goats.
Map Location: G-4 Dadu dist.: Thano Bula Khan to Kotri, K.H. Rechinger 28653 (K); 4 miles E of Thano Bula Khan, J.J. Norris 57 (K, RAW).

 

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Caespitose perennial, often forming dense cushions; sterile culms sub woody, up to 10 cm high, fertile culms slender, up to 20 cm high. Leaf-blades of sterile culms flat, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 1-2(3) cm long, 2-3 mm wide, glaucous, pungent, margins spinulose, densely imbricate with short, strongly ribbed sheaths; leaf-blades of fertile culms narrowly linear, acuminate, distant. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle up to 4 cm long; primary branches erect or ascending, bare for the lower third to half. Spikelets crowded at the ends of the branches, 1.8-2.1 mm long; glumes subequal, the lower ovate to lanceolate, cuspidate, the upper oblong-ovate to narrowly elliptic, acute, 0.6-1.2 mm long, half to two-thirds as long as the spikelet; lemma oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, obtuse (acute from the side), as long as the spikelet; anthers 3, sometimes 2, 1-1.5 mm long. Grain obovoid, 0.5-0.6 mm long.
 
 
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