Isachne angladei

HABIT Perennial. Culms scandent; 100–150 cm long. Culm-internodes 1.8–11.5 cm long. Lateral branches ample. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface; outer margin hairy. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades linear, or lanceolate; 5–15 cm long; 3–6 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation with 7–9 secondary veins. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade margins cartilaginous; scaberulous; glabrous, or ciliate; hairy at base. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle open; pyramidal; effuse; 6–8 cm long. Panicle branches capillary; glabrous in axils, or pubescent in axils; with prominent pulvini.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 2 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets obovate; dorsally compressed; obtuse; 2.4 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret.

GLUMES Glumes deciduous; similar; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 7 -veined. Lower glume surface glabrous, or puberulous; hairy above. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume elliptic; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 7 -veined. Upper glume surface glabrous, or puberulous; hairy above. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Fertile lemma elliptic; 2 mm long; coriaceous; without keel. Lemma margins involute. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea coriaceous; 2 -veined.

FLOWER Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.

DISTRIBUTION Asia-tropical: India.

NOTES Isachneae. Fischer 1994.

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