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Brachiaria eruciformis (J.E. Smith) Griseb. in Ledeb., Fl. Ross. 4:469. 1853. Bor, Fl. Assam 5:274. 1940; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 1:31. 1958; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 283. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:472. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70: 477. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 665. 1976; Clayton in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:262. 1980.
Brachiaria isachne (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.) StapfPanicum eruciforme J.E. SmithPanicum isachne Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10-60 cm high, slender, geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2-8 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescence of 3-12 racemes on an axis 1-6 cm long; racemes 0.5-2.5 cm long, secund, bearing single spikelets imbricate on a triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets elliptic, 1.7-2.7 mm long, pubescent (rarely glabrous or villous), sub-acute; lower glume a minute scale 0.2-0.5 mm long (up to a fifth the length of the spikelet); upper lemma readily deciduous, smooth, shiny, obtuse.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-September.
Type: Greece, Sibthorp (OXF).
Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab, N.W.F.P. & Kashmir); South Africa to the Mediterranean; eastwards to India.
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