Spodiopogon rhizophorus

Spodiopogon rhizophorus (Steud.) Pilg., Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2 14e: 119 1940. (Syn: Andropogon albidus Wall. [Invalid]; Andropogon rhizophorus Steud.; Spodiopogon albidus Benth.);

India as per POWO;
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Common name: Stalked-Leaf Beard Grass
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A common grass found in forest fringes and forest roads under dense shade.
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The petioled leaves, stilt roots and wooly and awned racemes makes it very easy to distinguish this grass.
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Grasses week- Request for ID – 111210RA1- A Rhizophorus?sp.?:
This species was seen in the forest in Mumbai on 20 Nov. ’10. It has rhizoporus side roots.

– .. I was informed by  …- one of Dr. Almeida’s Ph. D. students that it is Spodiopogon rhizophorus ..

Grass Week : Spodiopogon rhizophorus: This grass with Leaf-blade base with a false petiole, photographed from Pench Tiger Reserve on 2-12-2005, I think this is Spodiopogon rhizophorus, but not very sure, please comment on id.

Good set of pictures …; Good match for Spodiopogon rhizophorus.

Grass ID request – RK64 – 18-Dec-2012:
Request identification of another grass from Tungareshwar. It is about 2 – 3 feet high. A photo of the flowering is attached but the leaves had all dried up.

Could I request you to open this thread?
The base of the blade of this grass looks different from the grass posted by me and identified as Spodiopogon rhizophorus.
Could this be just a variation?

Place, Altitude: along Amba Ghat … about 1974 ft asl
Date, Time: 20 DEC 10 … 03:15pm
Habitat: along trail on mountain slope with dried scrub vegetation
Habit: small erect herb; about 2 ft high

Spodiopogon rhizophorus. A grass of forest fringes in dense shade. Long petioled leaves and hairy inflorescence.

Grass for ID :: Sinhagad, Aug 2014 :: ARK2019-14 : 10 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2)
This grass was abundant at Sinhagad, Pune, a hill in Aug 2014.
Requested to please ID, possible.

Mumbai, MH :: Grass for ID (Apluda??) :: ARK2020-017 : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)- around 900 kb each.

The Aarey grass is Spodiopogon rhizophorus and the Charkop grass is Apluda mutica. Both of them have leaf base narrowed into a petiole. The former have larger leaves and rounded leaf base above the petiole part, whereas the latter has leaf base narrowing into a petiole.

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