Giant Adlay Millet is a stout perennial herb with stems
up to 250 cm high; nodes bearded. Leaves are 10-75 x 0.5-2 cm, linear,
heart-shaped at base, scabrous; sheath rounded, hairless; ligule a
fringed membrane. Flowers are borne in an interrupted panicle; 1-few
racemes subtended by a leafy spathe; each raceme 2-4 cm long with a
single female spikelet at base and many male spikelets above. Female
spikelet 6 x 4 mm, obovate, enclosed in an involucre; ovary oblong;
styles 2, basely fused stigmas 2, plumose, 6-8 mm long. Male spikelets
8-10 x 2 mm; lower glume 8 x 1.5 mm, 13-nerved; upper glume similar,
6-nerved; florets 2, similar, lower one with shorter anthers; stamens
3, free; anthers 4 mm long. Giant Adlay Millet is native to the Indian
Subcontinent to W. Malesia. It is also found in the Himalayas.
Identification credit: Manoj Chandran
Photographed in Maharashtra & Madhya Pradesh.
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