Eragrostis tenella (Senegal) Eragrostis tenella is a small densely tufted annual grass, with variable size, usually not much more than 50cm high. Clums glabrous, spindly, the nodes at the base, may be ramified or not. Leaves up to 10cm long. Inflorescence usually with many slender spreading branches. It occurs in crops, waste places, old walls, …
Eragrostis japonica (Pond Lovegrass) Eragrostis japonica is an annual, or perennial, short-lived grass. Culms are rising or prostrate, 7–50 cm long, rooting from lower nodes. Ligule is a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades are 3–10 cm long, 2–5 mm wide. Spikelets occur in panicles. Spikelets are ovate, laterally compressed, looking like pink hearts. 4–12 mm long, …
Eragrostis atrovirens (Thalia Lovegrass) Thalia Lovegrass is a clustered perennial grass without rhizomes, culms 30-100 cm high. Leaf-blades are flat or rolled, mostly 15-30 cm long and 2.4 cm wide, typically grey-green but varying from yellowish to dark green and often tinged with purple, breaking up from the base, It has escaped from cultivation and …
Eragrostiella nardoides Annual or perennial; tufted, rhizomatous or stoloniferous. Leaves in basal, vegetative shoots and inserted distichously along stems (culms); blade usually ± linear; sheath open or closed, with a commonly membranous ligule at junction with base of blade. culms herbaceous or woody, jointed, internodes usually hollow. fruit an indehiscent grain (caryopsis), pericarp sometimes free, …
Echinochloa colonum (Jungle rice) Eleusine indica, the Indian goosegrass, yard-grass, goosegrass, wiregrass, or crowfootgrass. It is a small annual grass distributed throughout the warmer areas of the world to about 50 degrees latitude. The plant is clump- forming, branching from the base, culms are 40-95 cm tall. Leaf blades are flat or sometimes folded, 15-30 …
Dogotaroa setogera (Crab Grass) culms 20-80 cm high, geniculately ascending from a decumbent base. Leaf-blades broadly linear to lanceolate, 3-25 cm long, 3-12 mm wide. The nerves evenly spaced or with a wide central interspace, appressedly or silky pubescent, rarely with a ciliate frill, very rarely with stiff bristles; fruit lanceolate, grey to yellowish-brown.
Digiratia ciliaris (Crabgrass) Digitaria ciliaris is a species of grass known by the common names southern crabgrass, tropical finger-grass, tropical crabgrass or summer grass. Crabgrass is a tufted or creeping annual grass. Stems are rising, 20-100 cm long, base prostrate, rooting at the lower nodes. This grass is as annual that can grow up to …
Digitaria abludens (Summer Grass) Digitaria is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and warm temperate regions. Annual; culms 15-90 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 5-15 cm long, 2-5 mm wide. The grass grown in Forest floor. Whole plant eaten by concerned animal.
Dichanthium annulatum (Sheda Grass) Sheda Grass is a perennial grass, up to about 25 cm tall. Distinguishing feature is that ligule is a membrane about 1 mm high. Inflorescence branches. Spikelet’s paired, sessile spikelet is fertile. This is a popular pasture grass in many areas. It can be used in fields for grazing livestock, and …
Desmostachya bipinnata (Daab) Daabh is a harsh rihozomous perennial grass. Culms are stout, up to 1.2 m high. Leaf-blades are up to 65 cm long, 3.8-10.5 mm wide when unrolled. Lemmas are straw-coloured or suffused with purple, 1.8-2.7 mm long. Flowering: July-November.