Common name: Summer Grass, bug-seed grass, cockatoo grass • Kannada: Neeru sajjae hullu
Botanical name: Alloteropsis cimicina Family: Poaceae (Grass family)
Synonyms: Coridochloa cimicina, Panicum cimicinum, Axonopus cimicinus
Summer Grass is an annual grass with tufted and slender culms, about 2 ft.
tall. Leaves are ovate-lanceshaped, broadly cordate at the base, pointed at
the tip. Inflorescence consisting of 3-10 spike like racemes seated on top
of stalk. Spikelets are solitary or clustered, ovate-elliptic bearing
whitish or mauve hairs along each margin. Awn small stout from the top of
spikelet.
Identification credit: Rani Bhagat
| Photographed in Keesaragutta, Andhra Pradesh. |
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