Common names (English):

Bristly sandbur, Bristly grassbur

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Herb

Distribution:

Paleotropics

Use: Ornamental

Description:

Stout annual herbs; culms to 1.5 m tall, erect. Leaves 10-30 cm long, linear or linear-lanceolate, base rounded, apex acuminate. Panicles 7-18 cm long, spiciform, cream-yellow or reddish-purple in colour. Grains cylindrical, dorsally compressed.