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Golden Eulalia Grass
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Golden Eulalia Grass
P Native Photo: S. Jeevith
Common name: Golden Eulalia Grass
Botanical name: Eulalia phaeothrix    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Eulalia micranthera, Pollinia phaeothrix, Eulalia phaeothrix var. aurea

Golden Eulalia Grass is a perennial grass with stems up to 1 m tall, clustered, nodes hairless. Leaves 5-40 x 0.8 cm, linear-lanceshaped, densely hairy above; ligule a cluster of white hairs. Flower-racemes are 3-15 cm long, yellowish-brown, densely hairy, stalkless. Spikelets are 5 mm long, awned, densely hairy with golden brown hairs; florets 2, lower empty, upper bisexual; second lemma awned, awn to 15 mm long. Stalked spikelets are up to 4.5 mm long, awned or not. Golden Eulalia Grass is native to South India, Sri Lanka, S. Central China to Indo-China. Flowering: September-December.

Identification credit: S. Jeevith Photographed in the Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.

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