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Eriochloa procera C.E.Hubb.

Cup grass (en), Ériochloé (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Eriochloa

Characteristics

Annual or short-lived perennial. Culms erect or geniculately ascending, branching, 30–150 cm tall, nodes pubescent. Leaf sheaths keeled, glabrous; leaf blades linear, 8–20 × 0.2–0.8 cm, glabrous, apex acuminate. Inflorescence axis 10–20 cm; racemes several, 3–7 cm, loosely ascending, bare of spikelets proximally; spikelets mostly paired, single toward raceme apex; axis and rachis very slender, puberulous, pedicels usually without setae, those of a pair often partially connate. Spikelets lanceolate, 3–4 mm, herbaceous, sharply acute, basal swelling ca. 0.3 mm and often purplish; lower glume minute; upper glume and lower lemma 5-veined, pilose with appressed silky hairs, lower palea absent; upper lemma rugulose-punctulate, mucro 0.3–0.5 mm. Fl. and fr. summer–autumn. 2n = 36.
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Annual; culms 20–100 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending.. Leaf-blades 2–30 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide.. Inflorescence 4–20 cm. long; racemes 2–10 cm. long, the rhachis puberulous, triquetrous, bearing paired spikelets; pedicels commonly glabrous, those of a pair often fused below.. Spikelets lanceolate, (2.5–)3–4 mm. long, thinly pubescent; lower glume absent; upper glume acute to acuminate; lower floret represented only by a lemma; upper lemma with a mucro 0.3–0.5 mm. long.
Like E. fatmensis except: pedicels commonly glabrous, those of a pair often fused below; superior glume acute to acuminate.
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Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses animal food food medicinal
Edible seeds
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Images

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Distribution

Eriochloa procera world distribution map, present in Andorra, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, China, Cook Islands, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Moldova (Republic of), Madagascar, Myanmar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Taiwan, Province of China, Tanzania, United Republic of, Uganda, Viet Nam, and Samoa

Conservation status

Eriochloa procera threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:402044-1
WFO ID wfo-0000869117
COL ID 3B3PK
BDTFX ID 82265
INPN ID 671101
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Synonyms

Eriochloa hackelii Eriochloa procera Eriochloa ramosa Helopus annulatus Helopus laevis Helopus pilosus Panicum annulatum Paspalum annulatum Agrostis procera Helopus javanicus Milium ramosum Agrostis ramosa Eriochloa annulata Eriochloa sundaica Milium orixense Milium zonatum Piptatherum annulatum Thysanolaena procera Vilfa procera Eriochloa polystachya var. annulata Eriochloa procera var. involucrata Eriochloa ramosa var. involucrata Eriochloa procera var. procera
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