Botanical name: Sporobolus indicus    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Agrostis indica, Agrostis tenacissima, Vilfa indica

Smut Grass is a perennial grass with stems slender, in large dense clumps about 1 m high. Leafe-blades are narrow, elongate, narrowed to a fine point, usually flexuous, flat or becoming loosely rolled. Flower-panicles are 20-50 cm long, narrow and contracted throughout, sometimes included in the uppermost sheath; narrowed toward the tip, the slender branches rising up or spreading; spikelets grey to light brown, 1.6-1.8 mm long, short-stalked, almost one-sided on the underside of the branches; glumes nearly equal, blunt, 0.3-0.5 mm long. Smut Grass is believed to be a native of Tropical & Subtropical America. It has been introduced and naturalized in Tropical Asia and Europe.

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