Botanical name: Iseilema anthephoroides    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)

Erect Musal Grass is a grass with upright stems originating from a prostrate base, nodes hairless. Leaf-sheaths are 1-2.5 cm; ligule up to 0.5 mm; blades lanceshaped, 1-4.5 x 0.1-0.2 cm, flat. Panicles are up to 4 cm; spatheoles up to 8 mm. Homogamous spikelet are lanceshaped, to 4 mm. Stalkless spikelets lanceshaped, up to 3.5 mm. Lower glume lanceshaped, up to 3 mm, beaked, 5-nerved, finely velvet-hairy at beak, rough; upper glume to 3 mm, 3-nerved, shortly aristate; lower lemma to 2 mm; upper lemma narrow, to 1.5 mm, awn to 1 cm. Caryopsis ellipsoid, to 2 mm. Salked spikelets are similar to the homogamous spikelet. Erect Musal Grass is found in Peninsular India and Western Himalaya. Flowering: August-December

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