Botanical name: Dichanthium foveolatum    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Andropogon foveolatus, Eremopogon foveolatus, Cymbopogon strictus

Pitted Bluestem Grass is a clustered perennial grass with silky hairy basal sheaths; stems rising up, 15-80 cm high, wiry. Leaf-blades are very narrow, 1-15 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat or rolled, green or glaucous. Inflorescence a solitary raceme subtended by a narrow spatheole, these loosely aggregated on the stems; raceme 1.5-4.5 cm long, with 0-1 smaller homogamous pairs of spikelets at the base. Stalkless spikelet is narrowly elliptic, 2.5-4 mm long; lower glume cartilaginous, hairless, shining, with a circular depression in the upper third, pointed; upper lemma entire or minutely bitoothed, its awn 12-18 mm long. Stalked spikelet with or without a pit. Pitted Bluestem Grass is native to Africa to the India subcontinent to Myanmar.

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