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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.);
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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) .
Need help with grass with white flowers Satpuras; 1/1/2021
First one is Eragrostis, remaining one is could be Panicum,
Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)
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