Botanical name: Sporobolus coromandelianus    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Vilfa coromandeliana, Sporobolus commutatus

Coromandel Dropseed is a clustered annual grass with stems 7-20 cm tall, erect or rising up. Leaf-blades are broadly linear, 2-10 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, the margin rough or with a few long stiff hairs near the base. Flower panicles are ovate, 2-8 cm long; primary branches in whorls, spreading horizontally soon after emergence from the uppermost leaf-sheath. Spikelets are 1-1.4 mm long, hairless or scaberulous, greyish green; lower glume a minute oblong scale, 0.1-0.5 mm long; upper glume oblong-elliptic, as long as the spikelet; lemma similar, but a little shorter. Coromandel Dropseed is found in S. Africa, W. Indian Ocean, Arabian Peninsula to S. Central China, Java, New Guinea, including Western Himalayas and Western Ghats. Flowering: May-September.

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