Botanical name: Setaria homonyma    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Panicum homonymum, Setaria aequalis, Setaria lancea

Fanleaf Bristle-Grass is a loosely clustered annual grass, often rooting at the lower nodes. Stems are 25-100 cm. Leaves are lanceshaped, pleated, thin, flaccid, light green. Flowers are borne in a narrow panicle up to 20 cm long, with spikelets in two rows along the branches, these hairy or sometimes merely velvet-hairy; bristles 5-10 mm. long. Spikelets are 2-2.5 mm. long, narrowly elliptic, slightly dorsally compressed. Inferior glume blunt, 1/8-1/4 length of spikelet, superior glume 4/5 to as long as spikelet. Superior lemma rugose. Fanleaf Bristle-Grass is is found in Africa, India, including the Himalayas, to Myanmar. Flowering: September-January.

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