Stinking Scented-Top is an annual or perennial grass
with stems up to 1.5 m long, erect or straggling. Leaves are up to 20
cm long, 1 cm wide, elliptic-lanceshaped, tapering at tip. Ligules
membranous. Flowers are borne in open or contracted panicles, upto 15
cm long. Stalkless spikelets are 0.25-0.4 cm long, hairy or hairless.
Lower florets are empty, upper bisexual. Upper lemma is 0.1-0.2 cm
long, hyaline, awn 1-1.5 cm long. Stinking Scented-Top is native to
India, Myanmar, West Himalaya. Flowering: November-March.
Identification credit: Manoj Chandran
Photographed in Borgad, Maharashtra.
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