Category: Eragrostis

Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R.Br., Narr. Exped. Zaire 478 1818. (Syn: Andropogon amboinicus (L.) Merr.; Cynodon ciliaris (L.) Raspail; Eragrostis amboinensis Trin. ex Steud., nom. superfl.; Eragrostis amboinica (L.) Druce; Eragrostis arabica Jaub. & Spach; Eragrostis boryana (Willd.) Steud.; Eragrostis ciliaris subsp. brachystachya (Boiss.) H.Scholz; Eragrostis ciliaris var. brachystachya Boiss.; Eragrostis ciliaris var. ciliaris ; Eragrostis ciliaris var. clarkei Stapf ex Hook.f.; Eragrostis ciliaris var. compta (Link) Schrad.; Eragrostis ciliaris var. latifolia Hack.; Eragrostis ciliaris var. laxa Kunth; Eragrostis compta Link; Eragrostis lasseri Luces; Eragrostis lobata Trin.; Eragrostis pulchella Parl.; Eragrostis villosa Trin. [Illegitimate]; Erosion ciliare (L.) Lunell; Macroblepharus contractus Phil.; Megastachya boryana (Willd.) Roem. & Schult.; Megastachya ciliaris (L.) P.Beauv.; Poa amboinensis L., nom. superfl.; Poa amboinica L.; Poa boryana Willd.; Poa ciliaris L.; Poa compta (Link) Kunth; Poa elegans Poir.; Poa elliptica Willd. ex Steud. [Invalid]; Poa lobata (Trin.) Kunth);

Trop. & Subtrop. Old World: Aldabra, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caroline Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, India, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, France, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Leeward Is., Line Is., Louisiana, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Jersey, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Suriname, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is. as per POWO;

Alabama; Aldabra; Algeria; Angola; Argentina Northeast; Argentina Northwest; Aruba; Bahamas; Bangladesh; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bolivia; Botswana; Brazil North; Brazil Northeast; Brazil South; Brazil Southeast; Brazil West-Central; Burkina; Burundi; Cameroon; Cape Provinces; Cape Verde; Caroline Is.; Cayman Is.; Central African Repu; Central American Pac; Chad; Colombia; Comoros; Congo; Costa Rica; Cuba; Djibouti; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Florida; France; French Guiana; Gabon; Galpagos; Gambia; Georgia; Ghana; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Gulf States; Guyana; Haiti; Hawaii; Honduras; India; Ivory Coast; Jamaica; Kenya; KwaZulu-Natal; Laccadive Is.; Leeward Is.; Liberia; Libya; Louisiana; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Maluku; Marianas; Marshall Is.; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexican Pacific Is.; Mexico Central; Mexico Gulf; Mexico Northeast; Mexico Northwest; Mexico Southeast; Mexico Southwest; Mississippi; Morocco; Mozambique; Mozambique Channel I; Myanmar; Netherlands Antilles; New Caledonia; New Jersey; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; Northern Provinces; Oman; Pakistan; Panam; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Puerto Rico; Runion; Rwanda; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Socotra; Somalia; South Carolina; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Taiwan; Tanzania; Texas; Togo; Trinidad-Tobago; Turks-Caicos Is.; Uganda; Venezuela; Venezuelan Antilles; Vietnam; Windward Is.; Yemen; Zambia; Zare; Zimbabwe as per Catalogue of Life;

Common name: Gophertail Lovegrass, gophertail grass, Lovegrass, woolly love grass • Rajasthani: Lutio-lamp

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Tufted annual; culms 5-60 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, up to 12 cm long and 5 mm wide. Panicle spike-like, but often ± lobed or interrupted, 1-20 cm long, woolly, the spikelets densely clustered. Spikelets 6-12-flowered, ovate, 2-4.5 mm long, fluffy, often purplish, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes lanceolate, subequal, 0.7-1.2 mm long, acute; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 0.9-1.5 mm long, the keels (at least in the upper lemmas) bearing a few short stiff hairs, otherwise smooth, broadly obtuse, more or less obscurely mucronate; palea keels tuberculate-ciliate, the hairs 0.6-0.7 mm long, exceeding the width of the adjacent floret; anthers 2, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm long.

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)
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Need id of Grass from Hoshangabad, M.P : 4 posts by 3 authors.
Need id of Grass from Hoshangabad, M.P
12 December 19

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Check with Eragrostis

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Eragrostis ciliaris

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Eragrostis ciliaris – YS Apr/2020-06 : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5) – around 850 kb each.
This one is Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R.Br. having a panicle inflorescence looking like spike.
Date of Photo – 14th Aug., 2019
Place – Rewari, Haryana

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Eragrostis ciliaris

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Grass ID: 5 images.
Please help with this grass ID.
Bhopal,
21/02/2024

Eragrostis ciliaris

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Which eragrostis?: 5 images.
Bhopal
Black soil
Winter 2023/24

Eragrostis ciliaris

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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  World Flora Online  IPNI  GBIF (High resolution specimens) Flora of China  FOC illustration  Flora of Pakistan  Flowers of India  India Biodiversity Portal  CABI  Useful Tropical Plants  USDA

Eragrostis tenuifolia (A.Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud., Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 268 (1854) (syn: Eragrostis parviglumis Hochst. ex Steud. ; Eragrostis tenuifolia var. polytricha Peter ; Poa tenuifolia A.Rich.);
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Angola, Assam, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Chad, Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Rwanda, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Canary Is., Chile Central, Colombia, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Easter Is., Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Galápagos, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Madeira, Malaya, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Northern Territory, Panamá, Peru, Philippines, Queensland, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tasmania, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Western Australia, Windward Is. as per POWO;

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Annuals or perennials; culms tufted, 20-60 cm high, erect. Leaves 15-25 x 0.2-0.5 cm, linear; base rounded; sheath rounded; ligule a rim of membrane. Panicle 10-20 cm long, effuse, glabrous. Spikelets 0.5-1.3 cm long, linear-oblong, serrate; glumes similar, ovate-lanceolate, 1-nerved; florets 10-18, all bisexual; lemmas 2.25 x 1.5 mm, broadly ovate, mucronate, greyish black; palea curved, truncate at apex, persistent; anthers 1 mm long.

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)
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SD021 Plant ID assistance : 5 posts by 2 authors. 2 images
Kindly assist with ID of this grass. Clicked 30th Aug, 20. Found in New Delhi

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Eragrostis curvula

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POWO does not give its distribution here.

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Chrysopogon zizanoides (Vetiveria zizanoides)

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Eragrostis tenuifolia in the foreground and Chrysopogon (Vetiveria) zizanoides in the background

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MS, July, 2023/03 Poaceae for id: 1 image.
Location : Aizawl, Mizoram

Pl. post a high res. image to see the details.

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2 high res. images.

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Eragrostis tenuifolia – The persistent paleas and pedicels of spikelets with a glandular patch are the striking identification features of this perennial grass.
It is commonly found on road sides and lawn borders in sub-tropical to temperate areas and in higher elevations in tropical areas.

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SK 4030 09 September 2024 – Grass: 7 very high res. images.

Eragrostis tenuifolia – It should be having a glandular patch at the centre of most of the pedicels of the spikelets, though not clearly in photograph, it may be clearly visible in live plant.

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References:
POWO  Catalogue of Life  The Plant List Ver.1.1  WCSP  Grassbase  GRIN (Eragrostis tenuifolia (A. Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud.) Flora of Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India (2000- Details)  India Biodiversity Portal  

Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Janch., Mitt. Naturwiss. Vereins Univ. Wien 5: 110 1907. (Syn: Briza eragrostis L.; Briza major L. ex Kunth; Briza megastachya Steud. [Invalid]; Briza oblonga Moench [Illegitimate]; Briza purpurascens Muhl.; Calotheca purpurascens (Muhl.) Spreng.; Eragrostis argentina Jedwabn.; Eragrostis articulata De Wild. [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis cilianensis subsp. major (Host) Maire & Weiller …….; Eragrostis costata B.L.Turner; Eragrostis eragrostis (L.) MacMill. [Invalid]; Eragrostis flexuosa Steud.; Eragrostis leersioides (C. Presl) Guss.; Eragrostis major Host [Illegitimate] .; Eragrostis megalostachya (Koeler) St.-Lag.; Eragrostis megastachya (Koeler) Link …..; Eragrostis monodii A.Camus; Eragrostis multiflora var. cilianensis (All.) Maire ……; Eragrostis oblonga (Moench) Baumg. [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis pappiana var. insularis (Chiov.) Mattei .; Eragrostis pappii Gand.; Eragrostis polyadenia Mattei; Eragrostis polymorpha Roem. & Schult.; Eragrostis polysperma Peter; Eragrostis pooides var. compacta Regel .; Eragrostis schweinfurthiana Jedwabn.; Eragrostis starosselskyi Grossh.; Eragrostis triticea (C.Presl) Steud.; Eragrostis virletii E.Fourn.; Eragrostis vulgaris C.Presl ex Steud. [Illegitimate] ..; Erosion cilianense (All.) Lunell; Megastachya eragrostis (L.) Roem. & Schult.; Megastachya leersioides C.Presl; Megastachya oblonga (Moench) P.Beauv. [Illegitimate]; Megastachya obtusa Schult.; Megastachya purpurascens (Muhl.) Schult.; Megastachya triticea C.Presl; Poa cachectica Schumach.; Poa cilianensis All.; Poa eragrostis (L.) Brot. [Illegitimate]; Poa flava Willd. ex Steud. [Invalid]; Poa flexuosa Roxb. [Illegitimate]; Poa leersioides (J.Presl) Guss.; Poa megastachya Koeler [Illegitimate]; Poa nuttallii Spreng. [Illegitimate]; Poa oblonga (Moench) Baumg. [Illegitimate]; Poa obtusa Nutt. [Illegitimate]; Poa pennsylvanica Nutt.; Poa philadelphica W.P.C.Barton [Illegitimate]; Poa polymorpha J.Koenig ex Rottb. [Illegitimate]; Poa roxburghiana Schult.; Poa tortuosa Spreng.; Poa triticea (J.Presl) Kunth; Poa triticea (C. Presl) Guss.);
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Old World: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Ghana, Greece, Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Kriti, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Maluku, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Qinghai, Rodrigues, Romania, Rwanda, Réunion, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Swaziland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Alabama, Alberta, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, California, Chatham Is., Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Galápagos, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Madeira, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, Nicaragua, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Primorye, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, St.Helena, Switzerland, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming as per POWO;

Common name: Stink Grass, Candy grass, Gray lovegrass

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Culms loosely tufted, erect or geniculate, to 60 cm. Leaf-blades flat, 6-16 x 0.5-0.9 cm, glabrous, glandular on margins; ligule a ciliolate rim, to 0.25 cm. Panicles ovate-oblong, to 20 cm; rachis glabrous; branches and pedicels capillary and often glandular; pedicels shorter than spikelets. Spikelets narrowly ovate-oblong, 0.4-1.8 x 0.2-0.4 cm, breaking up from base, 8-60-flowered; rachilla breaking off above glumes. Glumes broadly ovate, 0.15-0.22 cm, subequal, acute, often glandular on keel; lemmas broadly ovate, to 0.28 cm, chartaceous, often glandular on keel; paleas obovate, to 0.25 cm, scabrid on keels, persistent. Grain subglobose, reddish-brown, to 0.06 cm.

(Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi from India Biodiversity Portal)
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References:
POWO  The Plant List Ver.1.1  WCSP  Grassbase  Factsheet  Flowers of India  India Biodiversity Portal  Wikipedia

Eragrostis atrovirens (Desf.) Trin. ex Steud., Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, 1: 562 1840. (syn: Briza elegans Osbeck; Eragrostis atrovirens var. hesperidum Maire; Eragrostis atroviridis Maire [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis biformis (Kunth) Benth.; Eragrostis bromoides Jedwabn. [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis luzoniensis Steud.; Eragrostis multiflora var. biformis (Kunth) A.Chev.; Eragrostis multinodis B.S.Sun & S.Wang; Eragrostis sudanica A.Chev.; Poa atrovirens Desf.; Poa biformis Kunth);
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Tropical & Subtropical Old World: Algeria, Angola, Assam, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Burkina, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Repu, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Congo, East Himalaya, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Hainan, India, Ivory Coast, Jawa, Kenya, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malaya, Mali, Maluku, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Pakistan, Philippines, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Uganda, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Alabama, Bahamas, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Caroline Is., Chagos Archipelago, Colombia, Cuba, Easter Is., Florida, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Guatemala, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Peru, Queensland, Réunion, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela as per POWO;
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Common name: Thalia Lovegrass

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Perennials. Culms 30-80 cm high, densely tufted; nodes glabrous. Leaves 4-15 x 0.2-0.4 cm, linear-lanceolate or linear-acuminate, base rounded or shallowly cordate, flat or rolled, glaucous; sheaths 2.5-6 cm long; ligule truncate, membranous. Panicles 14-30 cm long, lax. Spikelets 3-8 x 2-3 mm, ovate or ovate-oblong, 10-30-flowered, grey. Lower glume 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm, ovate-lanceolate, 1-nerved. Upper glume 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm, ovate-lanceolate, 1-nerved. Lemmas 2-2.5 x 1-1.5 mm, broadly ovate, acute, 3-nerved. Paleas c. 2 x 0.5 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, 2-keeled, keels ciliolate. Stamens 3; anthers c. 1 mm long. Ovary c. 0.5 mm long, oblong; stigmas 0.5-1 mm long. Grains c. 1 mm long, ellipsoid.  

From India Biodiversity Portal)
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Grass sp. from Assam : 3 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (4).

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Eragrostis species?

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Eragrostis atrovirens. This is a highly variable species with variation in colour of spikelets, though atrovirens means ‘dark green’. In this picture, the colour is not that dark green and is also suffused with some purple colouration. There is also variation in size of the plant, perennation, length of inflorescence, etc. If left ungrazed, it can become very tall with long and dense inflorescence.

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Grass for id : 6 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)- 2 Mb.

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Eragrostis atrovirens

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Grass I’d request : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (1)
Request for identification of a grass species from Bilaspur. Photographed in June 2020.

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Is it Poa?

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Eragrostis atrovirens as per Grass for id

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Identify the grass?: 2 high res. images.
Habitat: grow in garden
Location: kota rajasthan
Date: 16/06/2022

Eragrostis sp.

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Do you have full plant image. Is it naturally growing or grown in the garden? How tall is its?

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Sir it grow in a garden as a weed.

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Eragrostis atrovirens

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Regarding ID of Poaceae member: (Mixed thread): 3 images.
This Poaceae plant was growing at an altitude of almost 900 meters at Hamirpur, H.P. Mixed greyish color inflorescence was eye-catching. Kindly help ID this species.

Eragrostis atrovirens

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Regarding the ID of Summer Flowering Poaceae Plant: 4 images.
This Poaceae plant was growing at an altitude of almost 900 meters at Hamirpur, H.P. Mixed greyish color inflorescence was eye-catching. Kindly help ID this plant.

Eragrostis atrovirens – perennial grass found in riverside or swampy places with dark green spikelets. Very strong and difficult to uproot.

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Grass identification bundi02: 2 high res. images.
Habitat: Rocky area/grassland 

Annual or perennial ? Show bottom portion also

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Annual
1 high res. image.

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Eragrostis atrovirens

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Identify eragrostis sp?: 2 high res. images.
Habitat: Rocky/grassland

Eragrostis atrovirens

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References:
POWO  The Plant List Ver.1.1  GRIN  Grassbase  India Biodiversity Portal  Flowers of India  Flora of Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India

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India, Sri Lanka as per POWO;
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Culms densely tufted, geniculate, to 45 cm. Leaf-blades flat or involute, 4-7.5 x 0.15-0.2 cm, rigid, margins sometimes glandular; ligule a ridge of cilia, to 0.2 cm. Panicles ovate, to 10 cm; rachis and branches capillary and eglandular; branching axis glabrous. Spikelets linear-oblong, 0.4-0.8 x 0.1-0.15 cm, breaking up from base upwards, 10-20-flowered; rachilla persistent. Glumes ovate, hyaline, unequal, obtuse; lower glume to 0.06 cm; upper glume to 0.12 cm; lemmas broadly ovate, to 0.18 cm; palea linear-oblong, persistent. Grain subglobose, reddish-brown, to 0.07 cm.     

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“Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: – 06042013MR27 is this Eragrostis spp from Pune for ID —MR27” : Attachments (3). 4 posts by 3 authors.
Kindly help Id this plant growing along a road side drain. Is this Eragrostis spp?

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probably Eragrostis maderaspatana

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References:

The Plant List  India Biodiversity Portal  Encyclopedia of Life  RBG Kew: GrassBase – Description

Eragrostis riparia (Willd.) Nees, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 512 1829. (Syn: Eragrostis amabilis var. riparia (Willd.) E.G. Camus & A. Camus; Eragrostis riparia (Willd.) P. Beauv.; Eragrostis rubens var. riparia (Willd.) A.Camus; Eragrostis tenella var. riparia (Willd.) Stapf; Megastachya riparia (Willd.) Roem. & Schult.; Megastachya riparia (Willd.) Nees; Poa amboinica Retz.; Poa riparia Willd.);
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Tropical Asia: Bangladesh, India, Laos, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam as per POWO;

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Perennials. Culms densely tufted,10-30 cm long, geniculate; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-8 x 0.2-0.4 cm, linear-lanceolate, base rounded, apex acuminate; sheaths to 3 cm long, slightly keeled; ligule a row of hairs. Panicles 3-6 cm long, contracted, spiciform. Sikelets 1.5-3 x 1-2 mm, oblong, 5-10-flowered, pale yellow. Lower glume c. 1 x 0.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate, 1-nerved. Upper glume c.1 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, 1-nerved. Lemmas 1-1.5 x 0.5-1 mm, ovate-oblong, apex rounded, 3-nerved. Paleas 1-1.5 x 0.5 mm, obovate or oblanceolate, 2-keeled, ciliate along the keels. Stamens 3. Ovary c. 0.5 mm long; stigma c.0.5 mm long. Grains c. 0.5 mm long, linear. 

(From  India Biodiversity Portal

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Grass for identification from a coastal area 130413MK01 : Attachments (3). 3 posts by 2 authors.

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Yes it is.

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ID171210phk2:
Another grass for ID
At Akshi beach, Alibag
14Dec,2010

 

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References:

POWO  The Plant List  India Biodiversity Portal Encyclopedia of Life (Specimen) RBG Kew: GrassBase Description  JSTOR Plant Science (Specimen) 

Flora of Ranga Reddi District Andhra Pradesh, India By Thamminen Pullaiah, M. Silar Mohammed (Description & Keys) 

Flora of Madhya Pradesh: Chhatarpur and Damoh By G. P. Roy, B. K. Shukla, Bhaskar Datt (Description & Keys)

Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr. 71 1812. (syn: Catabrosa verticillata (Cav.) P.Beauv.; Eragrostis afghanica Gand.; Eragrostis amurensis Prob.; Eragrostis bagdadensis Boiss.; Eragrostis baguirmensis Chev.; Eragrostis baguirmiensis A.Chev.; Eragrostis bicolor Boiss. [Invalid]; Eragrostis bithynica Griseb. [Invalid]; Eragrostis collocarpa K.Schum.; Eragrostis damiensiana var. laxior Thell.; Eragrostis filiformis Link; Eragrostis gracilis Schrad.; Eragrostis gracilis Velen. [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis gracillima Hack.; Eragrostis imberbis (Franch.) Prob.; Eragrostis inberbis (Franch.) Prob.; Eragrostis indica (J.Koenig ex Rottler) Willd. ex Steud.; Eragrostis jeholensis Honda; Eragrostis linkii (Kunth) Steud.; Eragrostis multispicula Kitag.; Eragrostis petersii Trin.; Eragrostis pilosa var. amurensis (Prob.) Vorosch. ……..; Eragrostis punctata (L.) Link ex Steud.; Eragrostis senegalensis (Desv.) A.Chev. [Illegitimate]; Eragrostis tenuiflora Rupr. ex Steud.; Eragrostis verticillata (Cav.) P. Beauv.; Eragrostis verticillata (Cav.) Roem. & Schult.; Eragrostis verticillata Coss. & Lange .; Poa bohemica J.C.Mayer ex Mert. & W.D.J.Koch; Poa chilensis Steud. [Invalid]; Poa delicatior Steud.; Poa eragrostis Walter [Illegitimate]; Poa indica J.Koenig ex Rottler; Poa linkii Kunth; Poa mexicana Link [Illegitimate]; Poa pilosa L.; Poa pilosa Larrañaga .; Poa plumosa Schrad. [Invalid]; Poa poiretii Roem. & Schult.; Poa punctata L.f.; Poa punctata L.; Poa senegalensis Desv.; Poa tenella Pall. [Illegitimate]; Poa tenella Willd. (L. misappl. by) Pursh; Poa tenuiflora Steud. [Invalid]; Poa verticillata Cav.);

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Old World: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Congo, Corse, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Arizona, Arkansas, Aruba, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, British Columbia, California, Caroline Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Christmas I., Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Galápagos, Georgia, Great Britain, Guyana, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Kansas, Kazan-retto, Kentucky, Leeward Is., Line Is., Louisiana, Maine, Marianas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nevada, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, Nicaragua, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Poland, Puerto Rico, Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Samoa, Society Is., Solomon Is., South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming as per POWO;
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Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: SMP4 Pune for ID : Attachments (3).  2 posts by 2 authors.
Trying to post some images with inadequate data. Hoping to get to near ID so that I can study further.

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Eragrostis pilosa – the whorled lower branches with pilose hairs at the junction are the identifying characters of this species.

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Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P.Beauv. SN Oct 49 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2)

Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P.Beauv.
Radiating soft grass from Bangalore out skirt

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Validation please : 7 posts by 2 authors. 2 images- 3 & 4 mb each.
Request for validation of Eragrostis pilosa from Bilaspur. Photographed in July 2020

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Grass identification required #ABP01: 3 high res. images.
Habitat: Outer road side 

Eragrostis pilosa

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References:

POWO  The Plant List  GRIN  Flora of Pakistan  Annonated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal  Flora of China  Encyclopedia of Life  PFAF

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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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;
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Common name: Little Lovegrass, Lesser Love Grass

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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.

(From India Biodiversity Portal

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Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)

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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.

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Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)

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Need help with grass with white flowers: 3 high resolution images.
Satpuras; 1/1/2021

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First one is Eragrostis, remaining one is could be Panicum,

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Eragrostis poaeoides (E.minor)

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References:

POWO  The Plant List  GRIN  Flora of Pakistan  Annonated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal  Flora of China  India Biodiversity Portal  Flowers of India

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Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week :: Poaceae » Eragrostis ¿ sp ? at Yeoor Hills :: 15 NOV 09 08:49 :: DV32 : 3 images. 3 posts by 2 authors.
Poaceae
Eragrostis ¿ species ?

Place, Altitude: Yeoor Hills … about 300 ft asl
Date, Time: 15 NOV 09 … 08:49am
Habitat: near to stream bank
Habit: small herb; about 2 – 3 ft high
Looks like some species of Eragrostis; this plant looks comparatively larger version of Eragrostis unioloides; though could be Eragrostis unioloides itself.

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Eragrostis japonica

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Nepali Name : राँकी  Raankee 

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Grass Id from Bangladesh_SM_14020 : 4 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4)
Flowering: January
Habitat: Road side
Habit: Herb

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I’d of partially dried grass: 2 high res. images.
Any clue on I’d of a partially dried grass from Bilaspur. Photographed in February, 2022.

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Check with Eragrostis japonicus

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Looks like Eragrostis japonica

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Identify the grass_01: 2 high res. images.
Habitat: Rocky area/Outer road side

Eragrostis japonica (E.diplachnoides as per Bor 1960)

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References:

POWO  The Plant List  GRIN  Flora of Pakistan  Annonated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal  Flora of China  Flowers of India RBG Kew: GrassBase – Eragrostis japonica Description  IUCN Red List (LC) 

Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.) Trin., Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg, Sér. 6, Sci. Math. 1: 397 1831. (syn: Eragrostis hirsutissima Peter; Eragrostis mangalorica Hochst. ex Miq.; Eragrostis retinorrhoea Steud.; Eragrostis strigosa Andersson; Eragrostis tenella var. viscosa (Retz.) Stapf; Eragrostis terebinthacea Kurz ex Stapf [Invalid]; Eragrostis transvaalensis Gand.; Eragrostis viscosa var. pilosissima (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Hochst.; Poa glutinosa Roxb. ex Stapf [Invalid]; Poa viscosa Retz.; Poa viscosa var. pilosissima Hochst. ex A.Rich.);
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Tropical & S. Africa, S. Arabian Peninsula, Tropical Asia: Angola, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Chad, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, India, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Lesser Sunda Is., Malawi, Malaya, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Oman, Philippines, Socotra, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe; Introduced into: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Great Britain, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles as per POWO;
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Common name: Sticky Lovegrass

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“Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: Poaceae- Eragrostis tenella from Pune—MR18 : 6 images. 3 posts by 2 authors.
Sharing images of Eragrostis tenella from Pune
the 1st image is from Sep 2011 and the rest from a different site at Pune in Nov 2011

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The Nov images looks more like Eragrostis viscosa (E. tenella var. viscosa by some authors) as the plant is looking glandular. Kindly touch the plant to see whether it is sticky, especially at the base of the inflorescence.

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“Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae Week: – 06042013MR26 from Pune for ID —MR26” :  Attachments (3 + 2). 5 posts by 2 authors
kindly help Id this road side plant at Pune

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Eragrostis. Post photographs of fully emerged inflorescence for sp. confirmation

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Attaching images of emerged inflorescence. I am sorry the photographs are not very clear

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Eragrostis viscosa

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ID Part 1 : 10 posts by 4 authors. Attachments (2) – 1 mb or more.

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Eragrostis sp. You have the only ability for finalizing because you have plant material …; please finalize.

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Eragrostis viscosa. Some authors say Eragrostis tenella var. viscosa. The difference is the presence of glands on the pedicel. If you try pressing the inflorescence with your fingers, you can feel the stickiness due to the secretion from the glands. If you could show us the base of the inflorescence, these glands and viscous nature could be more evident. The photo is very good, showing the cilia on the palea, hairy nodes of the panicle axis, glandular secretions, etc.

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300519AB1 Plant for ID : 2 posts by 1 author. Attachments (2)

It will be useful if you could help in the identification of the following grass. I have only one photo of the plant. The other photo is of the grass patch. Very abundant.

Date/Time- November 2, 2017; 09:18 AM

Location- Place, Altitude, GPS- Eastern Melghat, 21°17.483′ N, 77°22.530′ E (North)

Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type- Wild

Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb-  Herb

Height/Length- 2’ Height

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This has already been identified as Eragrostis viscosa (or Eragrostis tenella var. viscosa) on this group. This is the link for the original post

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Grass for ID : Nasik : 05JUL21 : AK- 02: 2 images.
A wild grass seen in Dec, 20 in Nasik.

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Eragrostis

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Eragrostis viscosa

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Grass for ID : Nasik : 27OCT21 : AK – 026: 3 images.
Wild grass seen along the road last week (27.10.21).
Eragrostis?

Pl. post high res. images.

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3 high res. images.

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Eragrostis viscosa – Could you touch it and feel the stickiness. You can see the glandular patches on the pedicels and peduncle

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I will remember to feel it during my next visit.

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References:

POWO  The Plant List  GRIN  Flora of Pakistan  Annonated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal  Flowers of India