Paired Eulalia Grass is an annual grass with stems
30-60 cm long, internodes smooth, hairless. Leaf-sheaths are hairless
on surface. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades are 15-25 cm long;
4 mm wide; flaccid, surface velvet-hairy; sparsely hairy; hairy above.
Inflorescence is composed of racemes. Racemes are 2-6; paired, or
digitate; 2.5-7.5 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; fringed with
hairs on margins, internodes linear, tip transverse. Spikelets are
borne in pairs, fertile spikelets stalkless and stalked; 2 in the
cluster. Flower-stalks are linear; angular; fringed with hairs.
Spikelets are comprising of 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets;
without rhachilla extension. Spikelets are lanceshaped; dorsally
compressed; 3 mm long; falling entire; deciduous from the base, or with
accessory branch structures. Spikelet callus hairy; base blunt;
attached transversely, hairs white. Paired Eulalia Grass is native to
Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China, S. Malesia.