Heteropholis sulcata (Stapf) C.E.Hubb.

Perennial, arising from a short scaly rhizome; culms 60–120 cm. high.. Leaf-blades 16–60 cm. long, 3–10 mm. wide, gradually tapering to a flexuous tip.. Racemes 5–12 cm. long, slighty compressed.. Sessile spikelet broadly elliptic; lower glume 2.5–4 mm. long, sharply inflexed at the sides, strongly muricate, pallid, with narrow wings on either side of the apex.. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly oblong, 3–5 mm. long, green or purplish, the lateral keels of the lower glume and the median keel of the upper glume narrowly winged; pedicel a little shorter than the internode.. Fig. 201.