Grass Species of Rajaji National Park
Heteropogon contortus (Kumeria) The species is known by many common names, including black speargrass, tanglehead, steekgras and pili. H. contortus is a valuable pasture species across much of its range however it has also been responsible for the elimination of the wool industry over much of Australia due to the seeds becoming embedded in the …
Hackelochloa granularis It is the pit scale grass, is a species of grass. Hackelochloa granularis is an annual plant. The stems grow to 5–100 cm in length and have bearded nodes. The leaves are 2–5 cm in length and 4–12 mm wide with hairs on the surface and ciliate around the edges. The leaves range …
Eulaliopsis binata (Bhabhar) Eulaliopsis binata, the sabaigrass, a perennial plant belonging to the grass family, is grown in many Asian countries. It is mainly used for the manufacture of writing and printing paper. Pulping is done using soda and sulfate processes.
Eulalia mollis Rhizomes elongated. Butt sheaths glabrous. Culms 10-30 cm long. Leaf-sheaths outer margin hairy. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades 2-15 cm long; 2-4 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of racemes. Spikelets in pairs. Fertile spikelets sessile and pedicelled; 2 in the cluster.
Eragrostis unioloides Culms tufted, 10-55 cm high, erect or geniculate; nodes glabrous. base rounded or shallowly cordate, apex acuminate; sheaths to 5 cm long, 10-32-flowered, purplish. Stamens 3, violet. Stigmas white. Species grows in all types of dry and wet habitats and is tolerant to heavy disturbance and forms pure patches in such areas.
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 …