Browntop Millet is a loosely clustered annual grass,
with stems 10-70 cm high. Leaf-blades are broadly linear, 2-25 cm long,
4-14 mm wide. Inflorescence of 3 racemes are borne on an axis 3-10 cm
long; racemes are 1-8 cm long, simple or the longest with branchlets at
the base, bearing mostly paired loosely contiguous spikelets appressed
to the triquetrous rhachis; flower-stalks shorter than the spikelets,
1-2 mm long. Spikelets are elliptic to broadly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm
long, hairless or velvet-hairy, pointed to cuspidate, with or without a
stipe up to 0.5 mm long. Browntop Millet is widely found in the
Tropical world, at altitudes of 200-1800 m. Flowering: July-October.
Identification credit: P.S. Sivaprasad
Photographed in Ramnagar, Coimbatore distt., Tamil Nadu.
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