Urochondra setulosa
Urochondra setulosa (Trin.) C.E. Hubbard in Hook., Icon. Pl. 35: t. 3457. 1947. Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:258. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 635. 1960; Bor in Rech.f., Fl. Iran. 70:459. 1970.
Synonyms:
- Agrostis elatior Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex Trin.
- Crypsis dura Boiss.
- Crypsis setulosa (Trin.) Mez
- Heleochloa dura (Boiss.) Boiss.
- Heleochloa setulosa (Trin.) Blatter & McCann
- Sporobolus setulosus (Trin.) Terracc.
- Villa setulosa Trin.
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Tufted perennial, rhizomatous grass, up to 60 cm high; rhizome branching, old leaf-sheaths fibrous. Leaves narrowly-linear, involute or flat, c. 30 cm long. Inflorescence a dense, spiciform, cylindrical panicle, up to 16 cm long, 4-7 mm wide. Spikelets 1-flowered. Glumes subequal, 1.5-3 mm long, 1-nerved, oblong-elliptic, apiculate, ciliate on margins and on veins. Lemmas elliptic, 1-nerved, mucronate. Palea hyline, 2-nerved. Caryopsis not seen but reported to be conspicuously beaked.
Eastern and north eastern Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, India.
The Farasan Islands (Farasan Al-Kabir- Sajid).