Submission of Cenchrus echinatus

[Lalithamba Avadhanam]

Plant name: Cenchrus echinatus L., Sp. Pl. 1050. 1753.

Ver.names: Southern sandspur, Mossman river grass (Eng.)

Family: Poaceae

Description:

Annual. Culms geniculately ascending; 15-60 cm tall. Leaf-blades 4–25 × 0.5-1cm linear-lanceolate, sheaths scabrous; ligule a fringe of hairs. Panicle spiciform 2-10cm long; axis angular; bearing deciduous spikelet clusters. Spikelets subtended by spiny cup-like involucre. Bristles red or purplish or entire spikelets purple. Fertile spikelets sessile; 2–3 in the cluster; ovate; dorsally compressed; acuminate; 5–7 mm long; falling entire. Inner bristles longer than outer; with longest bristle scarcely emergent; 2–5 mm long; rigid; retrorsely scaberulous; pubescent; spinose. Glumes dissimilar, shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Basal sterile florets barren; with palea. Fertile lemma ovate, coriaceous. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ellipsoid; dorsally compressed; 3 mm long.

Habitat & location: Occasional in dry sandy soils and low hills. Photographed at Velugonda.

Thank you

Regards

A.Lalithamba

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Lalithamba ji, for a new addition to efi.

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