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Calamagrostis pseudophragmites (Hall.f.) Koel., Descr. Gram. 106. 1802. Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:299. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 396. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:299. 1968; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70: 268. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 317. 1976; Clarke in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:237. 1980.
Arundo glauca M. Bieb.Arundo littorea Schrad.Arundo pseudophragmites Hall.f.Calamagrostis glauca (M. Bieb.) Reichb.Calamagrostis lanceolata of Aitch.Calamagrostis laxa HostCalamagrostis littorea (Schrad.) P. Beauv.Calamagrostis nepalensis Nees ex Steud.
Tufted perennial with creeping rhizomes; culms 20-150 cm high, erect, rather stout, rough beneath the panicle. Leaf-blades up to 35 cm long, 2.5-10 mm wide, flat or convolute, scabrid above; ligule 4-10 mm long, acute or lacerate. Panicle soon nodding, lanceolate to oblong, 4-40 cm long, lax or dense and spike-like, usually tinged with purple. Spikelets 5-9 mm long, the rhachilla usually not prolonged; glumes unequal, narrowly lanceolate, smooth or scaberulous only on the keel; lemma about half the length of the glumes, smooth, truncate-denticulate at the tip; awn 1-3 mm long, arising within 0.3 mm of the lemma tip and scarcely projecting beyond the glume tips; callus hairs 2-3 times the length of the floret.
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