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Eragrostis minor Host, Fl. Austriaca 1: 135 1827. (Syn: Eragrostis beguinotii Belosersky; Eragrostis borysthenica (Schmalh.) Klokov; Eragrostis brizoides Costa [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis cilianensis subsp. pooides (P.Beauv.) Husn.; Eragrostis eragrostis (L.) H. Karst.; Eragrostis eragrostis (L.) P. Beauv.; Eragrostis megastachya var. nana Trab. [Invalid]; Eragrostis minor f. arenosa A.F.Schwarz ………..; Eragrostis multiflora var. pappiana Chiov. .; Eragrostis pappiana (Chiov.) Chiov.; Eragrostis pilosa var. minor (Host) Kuntze .; Eragrostis poaeoides P. Beauv. .; Eragrostis poiformis Link [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis poioides P.Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. [Spelling variant]; Eragrostis pooides P.Beauv. [Illegitimate] …..; Eragrostis suaveolens A.K.Becker ex Claus ..; Eragrostis vulgaris Coss. & Germ. [Invalid] …..; Eragrostis willdenoviana Nees ex Hook. & Arn.; Poa canariensis Willd. ex Spreng. [Invalid]; Poa eragrostis L.; Poa poaeiodes P. Beauv.);
. Old World: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Azores, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, North Caucasus, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Qinghai, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia; Introduced into: Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Arkansas, Baltic States, Belgium, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Krasnoyarsk, Louisiana, Maine, Marianas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York, Niue, North Carolina, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Réunion, Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Wake I., Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming as per POWO; . Common name: Little Lovegrass, Lesser Love Grass .
Loosely tufted annual; culms 6-60 cm high, ascending. Leaf-blades flat, up to 12 cm long and 5 mm wide, mostly glabrous and usually with a row of warty glands along the margin. Panicle ovate, 4-20 cm long, fairly dense to open, stiffly branched with short pedicels (lateral pedicels 1-3 mm), usually with glands on pedicels and branchlets.
Spikelets 6-16(40)-flowered, narrowly oblong or almost linear, 3-9(15) mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, yellowish green, leaden grey or purplish, breaking up from the base; glumes subequal, ovate, boat-shaped, 1-1.7 mm long, 1-3-nerved, often glandular on the keel, acute; lemmas broadly ovate to sub rotund, 1.5-2 mm long, chartaceous, often glandular on the keel, the lateral nerves distinct, obtuse; palea ± scabrid on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.3 mm long. Caryopsis broadly oblong, 0.7-0.8 mm long, dark brown.
Flowering and fruiting: May-September
Grasslands
Warm temperate and Subtropical regions of Paleotropics, occasionally found as an introduction in the New World
.     Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Poaceae- Eragrostis sp. for ID from Delhi: GS64 : Attachments (4). 3 posts by 2 authors.
Another Ergagrostis sp. from Delhi for Id growing in wastelands and cultivated beds. Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)
Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Poaceae-Eragrostis sp. for ID from Delhi-GS63 : Attachments(3). 3 posts by 2 authors.
Uploading Eragrostis sp. from Delhi, for ID, growing in cultivated fields and wastelands. Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)
Grass week: 061210GS2 Eragrostis sp. for ID from Delhi: Can it be Eragrostis minor Host as per Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Poaceae-Eragrostis sp. for ID from Delhi-GS63 ? Yes, already identified as per Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Poaceae- Eragrostis sp. for ID from Delhi: GS64
Grass week: 061210GS1 Eragrostis sp. for ID from Delhi: This seems to Eragrostis tenella. .
First one is Eragrostis, remaining one is could be Panicum, Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)
ID(dkb-20) – efloraofindia | Google Groups: 1 image. Eragrostis sp. it seems to be Eragrostis minor The identity of the Eragrsotis sp. may be wrong. it is not minor species identity is to be checked. then send the specimen for conformation Appears close to images at Eragrostis minor Host
Pl. confirm or otherwise pl.
Yes it is. E.poaeoides/E.minor
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