Botanical name: Ophiuros exaltatus    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Aegilops exaltata, Rottboellia exaltata, Rottboellia punctata

Canegrass is a perennial grass with stems often bulbously swollen at base, erect, 1-2 m tall, 4-6 mm in diameter, simple or branched. Leaf sheaths with tubercle-based hairs or hairless, margins densely fringed with hairs with rather rigid tubercle-based hairs; leaf blades broadly linear, 30-60 × 0.5-2.5 cm, midrib broad and white, margins pectinate, base rounded or subheart-shaped, tip long-tapering; ligule 1-2 mm, hairless. Racemes often fastigiately clustered, slender, 0.5-1.5 cm, base enclosed by a spatheole; axis very fragile, internodes about 3 mm, obliquely articulated. Stalkless spikelet 2-3 mm; lower glume ovate-oblong, smooth or areolate on back, sometimes also tuberculate, wingless, tip subpointed; upper glume equal to lower glume, boat-shaped. Flower-stalkled spikelet completely absent; flower-stalk obscure, free at extreme tip.Canegrass is found on grassy hillsides below 900 m, in Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. Australia. Flowering: June-October.

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