Arundinella setosa

Arundinella setosa Trin., Gram. Panic. 63 1826. (syn: Andropogon capillaris B.Heyne ex Steud. [Invalid]; Arundinella bidentata Keng; Arundinella capillaris Hook.f.; Arundinella hirsuta Steud. [Illegitimate]; Arundinella hubeiensis D.M.Chen; Arundinella hupeiensis Keng f. & X.P.Liou; Arundinella lasiostoma K.Schum.; Arundinella mutica Nees ex Steud.; Arundinella setifera Steud.; Arundinella setosa var. culionensis Jansen …….; Arundinella sinensis Rendle; Arundinella stricta Nees; Arundinella tricuspidula Buse; Arundinella zollingeri Steud.; Berghausia barbulata (Nees) Endl. ex Miq.; Danthonia luzoniensis Steud.; Danthonia neuroelytrum Steud.; Garnotia barbulata (Nees) Merr.; Garnotia barbulata (Nees) Janowski; Milium cimicinoides Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid]; Miquelia barbulata Nees; Miquelia setosa Nees);
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Tropical & Subtropical Asia to N. Australia: Andaman Is., Assam, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Western Australia as per POWO;

Annuals; culms tufted, 20-40 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaves 3-10 x 0.5 cm, lanceolate; rounded at base, densely hairy; sheath rounded, hairy; ligule a fimbriate membrane. Panicle 5-20 cm long; effuse, branches scabrid. Spikelets 6 x 2 mm, glabrous; lower glume 5 x 1.5 mm; upper glume 6 x 1.5 mm, ovate, acuminate; first lemma 3 x 1 mm, ovate, acute; second lemma elliptic, 2 x 1 mm, with arista on either sides of the awn; awn 8 mm long; palea 2 x 1 mm, 2-keeled; anthers 1.5 mm long.

Flowering and fruiting: May-December

Dry deciduous forests and grasslands

Indo-Malesia and China

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)

Submission of Arundinella setosa : 2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3)

Plant name: Arundinella setosa Trin., Gram. Panic. 63. 1826.

Ver.names: Reed grass, Arundinella (Eng.); Pathi oopagaddi (Tel.)

Family: Poaceae

Description:

Herbs, perennial, culms tufted, erect or geniculate, 0.6-1.5m tall; sometimes branched, 3-7 noded, nodes glabrous. Leaf sheaths shorter than internodes, glabrous or hispid; leaf blades linear, 10–40 cm × 3–9 mm, glabrous or hispid; ligule 0.5 mm. Panicle open 10-45 cm long; central axis and branches scabrid; branches 5–20 cm, stiffly ascending or spreading, solitary or fasciculate, loosely spiculate; pedicels scabrid, apex usually with long stiff hairs. Spikelets 5–6 mm, green tinged purple; glumes glabrous or rarely setose, scaberulous along veins; lower glume 4.5–5.5 mm, 3 veined; upper glume 5-veined; lower floret staminate or barren, shorter than glumes or equaling lower glume; upper floret 2.5–3 mm, lemma apex awned, awn geniculate 6–10 mm; callus hairy.
Habitat & location: Occasional in hill side forests. Photographed at S.R.Puram Porumaamilla ghat.

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