Botanical name: Chrysopogon nodulibarbis    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Andropogon nodulibarbis, Andropogon zeylanicus

Ceylon Beardgrass is a perennial grass with stems 80-150 cm high; nodes hairless. Leaves are usually collected at base, 20-30 x 0.4-1 cm, linear-lanceshaped; sheath sharply keeled; ligule a fringed membrane. Flowers are borne in panicles 10-20 cm long, lax with few spikelets. Stalkless spikelets are 6-8 mm long; lower glume 6 x 1.5 mm with two lines of bristles on dorsal side near the margins; upper glume similar but not with bristles; second lemma delicate, 1-nerved; awn 4 cm long; anthers 3 mm long. Stalked spikelets are up to 1.4 cm long; glumes unequal, awnless; upper floret male; lemmas awnless. Ceylon Beardgrass is found in Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China, and Western Himalaya.

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