Eragrostis minor Host, Fl. Austriaca 1: 135. 1827; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 321. 1897; Collett, Fl. Siml. ed. 2: 624. 1921 (Reprint 1980); Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 238. 1935; Tutin in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5: 257. 1980; Dhaliwal & Sharma, Fl. Kullu Dist. 681. 1999; Kaur & Sharma, Fl. Sirmaur 671. 2004; Singh & Sharma, Fl. Chamba Dist. 785. 2006; Fl. China @ eFloras.org 22: 477; Fl. Pak. @ eFloras.org p. 95; E. poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg., ed. 15 [bis]. 2: 574. 1817; Bor, Grasses Burma, Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 512. 1960; Sharma & Khosla, Grasses Punj. and Chandigarh 83. 1989.

An annual with densely tufted culms, 15-50 cm long, branched from base. Leaf blades linear, flat, 5-15(-25) cm x 3-5 mm, acuminate, sparsely hairy, margin glandular. Leaf sheaths glabrous or minutely pubescent along margin and summit; ligule a densely pubescent rim. Inflorescence oblong or ovate, sometimes contracted panicle, up to 20 cm long, compound, primary branches +/- 5 cm long, branches stiffy. Spikelets linear-oblong, olive-grey or purplish-grey, 5-10 mm long and ca. 1.5-2 mm wide, 6-15-flowered, pedicel shorter (1-3 mm) than spikelet, with a crateriform gland, a gland also oftenly present on branchlets; spikelets breaking up from the base. Glumes chartaceous, lanceolate, subequal, lower ca. 1.5 mm and upper ca. 2 mm long, hyaline, acute, 1-nerved, glandular along veins. Lemma ovate, 1.2- 2 mm long, acute, 3-nerved. Palea as long as or little shorter than lemma, persistent, 2-keeled, ciliolate along keels. Stamens 3; anthers ca. 0.2-0.3 m long. Caryopsis broadly oblong, 0.7-0.8 mm long and 0.5 mm broad, dark brown.

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