Tetrapogon tenellus
Tetrapogon tenellus (Koen. ex Roxb.) Chiov. in Annuar. R. Ist. bot. Roma. 8: 352. 1908. Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:243. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 475. 1960; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:449. 1970.
Synonyms:
- Chloris macrantha Jaub. & Spach
- Chloris tenella Koen. ex Roxb.
- Chloris triangulata Hochst. ex A. Rich.
NE
Annual or short-lived perennial, loosely tufted, with erect or ascending 4-6-noded culms up to 60 cm high; nodes not prominent. Leaf-blades 5-20 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, tapering; sheaths loosely flabellate at the base of the culm. Spikes exserted, solitary or paired and divergent, 3-7 cm long. Spikelets 4-6 (-8)-flowered, the lower 3-5 florets fertile and awned; glumes ovate-lanceolate, acute, acuminate or rarely aristate, the lower 3-5.5 mm long, the upper 4-6.5 mm long; lowest lemma obovate, 4-6.5 mm long, shortly ciliate along the nerves or subglabrous, with an awn 3-15 mm long; upper 1-2 florets sterile and reduced to minute awnless lemmas. Grain of lowest floret oblong
Africa, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India.
The Farasan Islands.
Flowering Period: April-June.