Eragrostis ciliaris

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

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