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Tropical Cupgrass

(Eriochloa barbatus)

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Description

An annual, 15-100 cm high with linear leaf-blades. Inflorescence narrow, of up to ten racemes 2-4 cm long, with biseriate aristulate silky spikelets, having the basal beadlike internode pale or purplish. Spikelets obtuse without a bristle (Napper, 1965). Differs from Brachiaria in having a tiny beadlike swelling below each spikelet (Rose-Innes, 1977).

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order:Poales
Family:Poaceae
Genus:Eriochloa
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