India love grass

Eragrostis pilosa

Family: Poaceae Genus: Eragrostis Species: pilosa

Synonyms: Poa senegalensis, Eragrostis verticillata, Eragrostis pilosa subsp. neglecta, Eragrostis damiensiana var. laxior, Eragrostis pilosa subsp. subspontanea, Eragrostis pilosa f. imberbis, Eragrostis bithynica, Eragrostis tenuiflora, Eragrostis pilosa var. nutans, Eragrostis pilosa var. versicolor, Eragrostis pilosa var. pumila, Poa plumosa, Poa linkii, Poa tenella, Poa indica, Eragrostis pilosa subsp. imberbis, Poa verticillata, Poa tenuiflora, Poa chilensis, Eragrostis bagdadensis, Eragrostis multispicula, Poa pilosa var. minor, Eragrostis linkii, Eragrostis punctata, Eragrostis pilosa var. major, Eragrostis collocarpa, Eragrostis pilosa var. glabra, Eragrostis bicolor, Poa pilosa, Eragrostis longipes, Eragrostis jeholensis, Poa pilosa var. tenuis, Catabrosa verticillata, Eragrostis imberbis, Eragrostis gracillima, Eragrostis afghanica, Eragrostis pilosa var. verticillata, Poa delicatior, Eragrostis albensis, Eragrostis baguirmiensis, Eragrostis indica, Eragrostis pilosa var. imberbis, Poa bohemica, Eragrostis petersii, Poa punctata, Eragrostis senegalensis, Eragrostis gracilis, Eragrostis pilosa var. minor, Poa mexicana, Eragrostis filiformis, Poa poiretii, Poa eragrostis, Eragrostis verticillata var. indica

India love grass (en)

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Botanical Description

Eragrostis pilosa is a delicate tufted annual grass of the Poaceae family growing 15-60 cm tall, typically forming loose tussocks from a fibrous root system. Culms are slender, geniculately ascending or erect, smooth, much-branched at the base. Leaf blades are flat to inrolled, linear, 5-20 cm long and 1-3 mm wide, scaberulous on the upper surface and along the margins; leaf sheaths are smooth except for a conspicuous tuft of long white hairs at the throat. The ligule is a fringe of short hairs less than 0.5 mm long. The inflorescence is a delicate, loose, open panicle 6-25 cm long, occupying nearly half the height of the plant, with fine spreading branches that are bare in their lower part and bear small spikelets only towards the tips; the lower branches are characteristically subtended by long sparse hairs at their bases. Spikelets are linear-oblong, 4-10 mm long, slightly flattened, greenish to purplish-grey, and contain 5-15 closely overlapping florets. Lemmas are ovate, three-nerved and rounded on the back. The grain is minute, ellipsoid and red-brown. Native to tropical and warm-temperate regions of Africa and Eurasia and now widely naturalised throughout the world.

Native Region: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Andaman Is., Angola, Assam, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Borneo, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Congo, Corse, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Free State, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Hainan, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jawa, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, New Guinea, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Réunion, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sicilia, Sierra Leone, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tibet, Togo, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

228529

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