Andropogon canaliculatus Schumach.

Tufted perennial; culms 25–200 cm. high, erect.. Leaf-blades narrow, 10–40 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide; sheath-auricles and ligules up to 2 mm. long, usually hairy at the throat.. Inflorescence of paired racemes, occasionally terminal but usually up to 8 loosely gathered into a false panicle; racemes 3–9 cm. long, purplish; internodes and pedicels broadly cuneate to inflated, ± twice as wide as the gap between them, sparsely ciliate.. Sessile spikelet 4–6 mm. long, including a short blunt callus; lower glume linear, deeply depressed between the dorsal keels, glabrous; upper glume acute; upper lemma bilobed almost to the middle, with an awn 7–15 mm. long.. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly lanceolate, 3.5–6 mm. long, scaberulous on the nerves, glabrous, acute or mucronate (rarely up to 2 mm.).

It is a tropical plant. It grows between sea level to 2,300 m above sea level. It can grow in arid places. It is often in seasonal swamps.