Indian Muraina Grass is a perennial, spreading or
clustered runner-forming grass rooting at the nodes, with erect or
geniculate stems up to 60 cm tall, often branching and hairy at the
nodes. Leaf-sheath are 3-6 cm long, often tight, hairless or sparsely
hairy; ligule membranous, flat, 1-2 mm long, entire or lacerate;
leaf-blade narrowly lanceshaped, up to 20 cm x 1 cm, tapering at tip,
usually sparsely to densely hairy. Inflorescence is composed of two
closely opposed or somewhat divergent racemes 2-10 cm long; spikelets
paired, bisexual, one stalkless, one stalked, alternately on one side
of the triangular axis; axis and flower-stalk hairy along angles; lower
glume winged at tip, forming 2 large blunt lobes; upper lemma deeply
notched, excurving into a long kneed and twisted awn 8-15 mm long.
Indian Muraina Grass is native to the Indian Subcontinent to S. China
and W. Malesia.
Identification credit: Manoj Chandran, Sushant More
Photographed in Badlapur, Maharashtra.
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