Arrowleaf Muraina Grass is an annual grass with stems
prostrate, 30-60 cm long. Stem-nodes are hairless. Ligule an efringed
with hairs membrane; 3 mm long. Leaf-base is heart-shaped, or arrow
shaped; without a false leaf-stalk, or with a false leaf-stalk;
leaf-stalk 0-2.5 cm long. Leaf-blades lanceshaped; 5-7.5 cm long; 10-16
mm wide. Leaf surface hairless, or velvet-hairy; sparsely hairy, tip
tapering. Inflorescence is composed of 2 paired racemes, appressed back
to back; 2.5-6.3 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; angular;
fringed with hairs on margins. Rhachis internodes are inflated; 3 mm
long. Arrowleaf Muraina Grass is native to India, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka.
Identification credit: Shahid Landge
Photographed in Matheran, Maharashtra.
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