Eragrostis multiflora

Eragrostis multiflora Trin., Mem. Acad. Sci. Petersbourg, ser. 6, Sci. Math.1: 401. 1830; Eragrostis tremula Hochst. ex Steud., Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 269. 1854; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 320. 1897; Bor, Grasses Burma, Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 514. 1960; Maheshwari, Illustr. Fl. Delhi f. 250. 1966; Kaur & Sharma, Fl. Sirmaur 672. 2004; Fl. Pak. @ eFloras.org p. 98; Poa multiflora Roxb., Fl. Ind. 1: 340. 1820; P. tremula Lamk., Tab. Encycl. Meth. Bot. 1: 185. 1791.

An annual with loosely tufted, erect or ascending culms, 30-50 cm long. Leaf blades linear-lanceolate, flat, tapering to a fine point, 3-10 mm x 2-4 mm, glabrous, hairy at base; leaf sheath smooth; ligule a minute hairy line. Panicle ovate, 10-20 cm long, very loose and open, branches filiform, spikelets nodding on 5-15 mm long, slender pedicels, panicle bearded at base of branches with long hairs; sometimes pedicels bearded in axils. Spikelets linear, up to 2.5 cm x 2 mm, 20-50- flowered, flowers closely imbricate and covering the rachilla, purplish, breaking up from the base on maturity. Glumes subequal, ovate, acute, 1-nerved, keels scabrid; lower glume shorter (8-12 mm long) than the upper one (12-15 mm long). Rachilla tough, persistent, glabrous or bearded at nodes. Lemma broadly ovate, 1.5-1.7 mm long, subobtuse, 3-nerved, membranous, purplish, fading at maturity. Palea shorter than lemma, ca. 0.5 mm long, ovate-oblong, obtuse, persistent, keels scabrid. Stamens 2, 0.3-0.5 mm long. Caryopsis subglobose to broadly ovoid, 0.3-0.4 mm long.

Flowering and Fruiting: August to November
Common Names: Nil