Cynosurus echinatus
Cynosurus echinatus
Top tarakotu
Annual. Stems 15-65 cm, solitary or fasciculately branched at base, smooth, glabrous, not curved or nodding at base of panicle. Leaf sheaths smooth, uppermost usually not reaching inflorescence at anthesis;ligule 4-10 mm; blades 3-21 em x 2-8.5 mm. Panicle 7-60 x 4-25 mm , ovoid, oblong or subglobose, unilateral, dense-joints somewhat swollen, without whitish band. Fertile spikelets 4.5-7 mm, 2-3-flowered; glumes linear-acuminate, c. as broad as lemma, white-hyaline; lemma 4-6.5 mm, 5-veined, scabridulous in upper part of dorsal surface, bidentate at apex, with awn 7-18 mm from sinus; awn usually straw-coloured or greenish, sometimes purplish. Sterile spikelets consisting of 9-23 pectinate-distichous scale-like glumes and lemmas, upper ones only slightly broader than lower, each with 3.5-8 mm awn. Fl. 4-8. Woodland , dry hillsides, grassy places, fields, roadsides, nr s.l.-1950 m.
