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Oplismenus burmanii (Retz.) P. Beauv., Ess. Agrost. 54, 168, 169. 1812. Duthie, Fodder Grasses 13. 1888; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:68. 1896; Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 154. 1935; Bor, Fl. Assam. 5:263. 1940; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 1:50. 1958; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 317. 1960; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:484. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 655. 1976.
Oplismenus bromoides (Lam.) P. Beauv.Oplismenus multisetus A. Rich.Orthopogon burmanii (Retz.) Trin.Panicum bromoides Lam.Panicum burmanii Retz.Panicum multisetum Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Annual with prostrate or trailing culms 10-60 cm long. Leaf-blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1-9 cm long, 5-20 mm wide. Inflorescence 2-11 cm long; racemes 0.5-2.5 cm long, their rhachis hirsute, the spikelets contiguous. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, pubescent, often with a transverse band of hairs across the middle of the lower lemma, rarely glabrous; glumes with a scaberulous awn, that of the lower 2.5-20 mm long, the upper shorter.
Type: India, Koenig (LD).
Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab, fide Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. 120); throughout tropical Africa; tropical America; Asia.
This species often forms pure mats in the shade of trees in grazing areas and in open spaces. Duthie notes a report that it is eaten by cattle. It is distinct from the other species of Oplismenus in possessing a scabrid awn.
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