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Cymbopogon jwarancusa (Jones) Schult., Mant. 2:458. 1824. Stapf in Kew Bull. 1906: 313, 354. 1906; Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 102. 1935; Bor in J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 52:178. 1955; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 1:114. 1958; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 128. 1960; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:542. 1970; Soenarko in Reinwardtia 9:305. 1977.
Andropogon himalayensis Gand.Andropogon jwarancusa Jones
Perennial; culms erect or geniculately ascending, up to 150 cm high. Leaf-blades up to 30 cm long and 5 mm wide, whitish, narrowed at the base, attenuate to a filiform tip; basal sheaths glabrous, flat or coiled; ligule 0.5-4 mm long. False panicle 15-40 cm long, erect; spatheoles lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, becoming reddish, 1.5-2.5 cm long. Racemes 13-22 mm long, lowest pedicel not swollen; internodes and pedicels densely ciliate along the margins and on the hack. Sessile spikelet lanceolate, 4.5-5.5 mm long; lower glume shallowly concave on the back; upper lemma deeply bifid, with an awn 7-10 mm long. Chromosome number, 2n = 20.
Lower Taxa
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