Oryza meyeriana Baill.

A herb or grass. It keeps growing from year to year. It can forms tufts or have short runners. It grows 30-70 cm tall. The leaf blades are thin and 5-20 cm long by 1-2 cm wide. They are rough along the veins underneath. The flowering shoots are erect and narrow and 3-15 cm long. There are 2-5 branches. There are a few spikelets 5-7 mm long. The seeds are 3-4 mm long.

Dense shade in deciduous forests; bamboo thickets; rarely on grassy slopes; limestone hills and mountains; growing in damp places by streams and waterholes, sloping land, avoiding standing water; at elevations to 950 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.