Eragrostis unioloides (Retz.) Nees ex Steud.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Liliopsida > Poales > Poaceae > Eragrostis > E. unioloides

Description: Annuals. Culms tufted, 10-55 cm high, erect or geniculate; nodes glabrous. Leaves 3-18 x 0.2-0.5 cm, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, base rounded or shallowly cordate, apex acuminate; sheaths to 5 cm long; ligules membranous. Panicles 5-15 cm long, lax. Spikelets 4-6 x 2-4 mm, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, 10-32-flowered, purplish. Lower glume 1-1.5 x 0.5 mm, lanceolate, 1-nerved. Upper glume 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Lemmas 1.5-2.5 x 1-1.5 mm, broadly ovate, 3-nerved. Paleas 1-2 x 1 mm, elliptic, 2-keeled. Stamens 3, violet. Stigmas white. Grains c. 1 mm long, ellipsoid, reddish-brown.

Flowering and Fruiting: Throughout the year

Uses: It is used as a forage. Its abundance in irrigated rice fields makes it also useful for grazing after the rice harvest and as a green manure.

Cultivation:

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org