Isachne mauritiana Kunth

Rambling perennial, culms 30–60 cm. high, geniculately ascending from a prostrate base rooting at the nodes.. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 7–20 cm. long, 5–17 mm. wide, glabrous, scaberulous, sparsely and stiffly pilose, or pubescent.. Panicle broadly ovate, 10–20 cm. long, very loose and open, the branches obliquely spreading.. Spikelets obovoid, 1.2–1.8 mm. long, the florets hermaphrodite and contiguous; glumes very broadly elliptic, as long as the florets, 5–9-nerved, glabrous or with a few hairs towards the apex; lemmas broadly elliptic to subrotund, the lower a little longer than the upper, thinly coriaceous, glabrous.. Fig. 118.

In forest shade.