Botanical name: Sporobolus diandrus    Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Agrostis diandra, Vilfa diandra, Sporobolus indicus var. diandrus

Indian Dropseed is a clustered perennial grass without rhizomes. Stems are 15-75 cm high, erect or geniculately rising up. Leaf-blades nearly always involute, up to 30 cm long, occasionally flat and then up to 4 mm wide. Flower-panicles are pyramidal or narrowly lanceshaped, loose, up to 20 cm long, the primary branches erect or somewhat spreading, 1.5-5 cm long, bare at the base. Spikelets are 1.2-1.6 mm long; glumes lanceshaped to ovate-lanceshaped, shorter than the spikelet, blunt, the lower 03-0.5 mm long, the upper 0.6-0.9 mm long; lemma narrowly ovate, as long as the spikelet, pointed; anthers 2, sometimes 3, 0.3-0.4 mm long. Grain oblong or elliptic-oblong, 0.6-0.8 mm long, flat at the tip. Indian Dropseed is found in the Indian subcontinent to Tropical & Subtropical Asia, including the Himalayas, at altitudes of 100-1400 m. Flowering: August-October.

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