Botanical name: Lasiurus scindicus    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Saccharum hirsutum, Coelorachis hirsuta, Lasiurus hirsutus

Sewan Grass is a perennial grass that can live up to 20 years. It is a bushy, multi-branched desert grass with rising up to erect wiry stems, up to a height of 1-1.6 m, and a stout woody rhizome. Leaves are alternate with a thin leaf-blade. The inflorescence is a silky, 10 cm long raceme bearing hairy spikelets. The fruit is a caryopsis. Sewan grass forms bushy thickets in sandy deserts where it is used for pasture, hay and fodder for livestock. This grazing pasture is of utmost importance in areas where annual rainfall is below 25 cm. Sewan Grass is native to Sahara to NW India.

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