Viper Grass

Description

Especially the grass originally described by Vahl , and Georgolfgang Franz Panzer 's exact name given to Dinebra retroflexa. The Dinebra retroflexa covered kahenera Dinebra the family Poaceae. A loosely tufted, annual, slender plant, usually straggling and ascending from a decumbent base; much-branched and rooting from the lower nodes. Leaf-sheaths are glandular, ligule is membranous, or a ciliolate membrane; leaf blade has an acuminate apex. Inflorescence is linear with short oblong to cuneate, densely crowded, stiff racemes, more or less elliptic-oblong or pyramidal. Spikelets are 1–3 flowered and narrowly cuneate. Fruit is an ellipsoid caryopsis with adherent pericarp.