Chase's glenwood grass

Sacciolepis indica, sometimes called Indian cupscale grass or Chase's glenwood grass, is a slender annual or short-lived perennial grass in the family Poaceae, widely distributed through tropical and subtropical Asia, Africa, and Australasia, with introductions in the Americas. Plants form loose tufts of weak, decumbent or erect stems 20-80 cm tall that often root at the lower nodes and become spongy when growing in shallow standing water. The leaf blades are flat, linear-lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 2-6 mm wide, with a smooth or finely scabrous surface and a short membranous ligule. The inflorescence is a narrow, dense, spike-like cylindrical panicle 3-10 cm long and 4-8 mm wide, the branches appressed to the main axis. Spikelets are small (1.5-3 mm), strongly gibbous (sac-shaped), pale green to purplish; the lower glume is very short and the upper glume is enlarged, prominently nerved, and enclosing the floret — the diagnostic "saccolepis" feature. The species grows in seasonally wet habitats: rice fields, marshes, ditches, pond margins, and damp meadows on a variety of soils.