Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels 1-2 mm long. Fertile spikelets comprising 10-15 florets, with diminished florets at the apex; oblong, 4-5.5 mm long, laterally
compressed, breaking up at maturity. Rhachilla persistent, retaining paleas; fragile above, or becoming fragile after lemmas shed, with the distal florets disarticulating
separately. Glumes similar, deciduous, shorter than spikelet. Lower glume ovate, 1- 1.7 mm long, as long as upper glume, membraneous, 1-keeled, 1-nerved; lateral nerves
absent, apex acute. Upper glume ovate, 1.5-1.7 mm long, 0.5 times length of adjacent fertile lemma, membraneous, 1-keeled, 1-nerved; lateral nerves absent, apex
acuminate. Florets: fertile lemma ovate, 1.7-2 mm long, chartaceous, keeled, 3- nerved; apex acute. Palea 2-keeled, scabrous. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile
though underdeveloped. Stamens 3. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, ovoid, 0.7 mm long.
Notes
Found in China, Indo-China, Malesia, Australasia, and Pasific. Attractive and decorative, forage, may become invasive.
Distribution at Sulawesi
Celebes.
Habitat
Common in woodland and native pasture, plains, usually near water, on stream banks, moist depressions, waste ground, swampy ground, sandy places, savannah.
Specimen examined
Sabintoe 24 WALL.
36.4. Eragrostis cilianensis Bellardi Vignolo ex Janch. Mitt. Naturwiss. Vereins
Univ. Wien, 5: 110. 1907. Eragrostis megastachya Koeler Link, Hort. Berol. 1: 187. 1827.
Plants annual, caespitose. Culms 40 cm long, erect, or geniculately ascending. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Blades 6-12 cm by 4-7 mm, margin glandular, or eglandular.
Inflorescence an open panicle, ovate, dense, or loose, 20 cm long; branches stiff, glandular. Spikelets solitary: fertile spikelet pedicelled. Pedicels oblong, glandular.
Fertile spikelets comprising 30 fertile florets mm, with diminished florets at the apex; oblong, laterally compressed, 10 mm long, breaking up at maturity, rhachilla
persistent; retaining paleas. Glumes similar, deciduous, shorter than spikelet. Lower
glume 2 mm long, ovate, as long as upper glume, glandular, 1-keeled, 1-3-nerved; apex acute. Upper glume ovate, 0.7 times length of adjacent fertile lemma, eglandular
or glandular, 1-keeles, 1-3-nerved; apex acute. Florets: fertile lemma ovate, 2.6 mm long, chartaceous, glandular on nerves, keeled, 3-nerved; lateral nerves distinct, apex
emarginate. Palea keels scabrous. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped. Anthers 2, 0.3 mm long. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp,
orbicular, 0.5 mm long.
Notes
Found in Europe, Africa, Asia, Arabia, China, Mongolia, India, Indo-China, Malesia, Australasia, Pasific, United States, Mexico, Mesoamericana, Brazil, and
South America. Distribution at Sulawesi
Southeast: Boeton Island, Bau-Bau.
Habitat Opened area.
Specimen examined
Kjellberg 37 BO. 36.5.
Eragrostis cumingii Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 266. 1854.
Eragrostis bleeseri Pilg., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 1091: 112. 1927. Eragrostis bulbillifera Steud. Syn. Pl. Gl;umac. 1: 267. 1854.
Eragrostis distans Hack. Publ. Bur. Sci. Gov. Lab. 35: 81. 1905. Eragrostis reflexa Hack. Philipp. J. Sci. 33: 168. 1908.
Eragrostis simplex Scribn. Bull. Div. Agrostol., U.S.D.A. 7: ed. 3 250, f. 244. 1900.
Uniola paniculata Llanos. Fragmentos de algunas plantas de Filipinas 32. 1851.
Plants perennial. Culms 30-60 cm long, erect. Sheaths 2.5-3.5 cm long, glabrous on surface. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Blades 5-10 cm by 1-2 mm, apex
acuminate. Inflorescence an opened panicle, elliptic, 6-12 cm long, with spikelets clumped along branches. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels
eglandular. Fertile spikelets comprising 10-30 fertile florets, with diminished florets at the apex; linear, 4-15 cm long, laterally compressed, breaking up at maturity, rhachilla
persistent, retaining paleas. Glumes similar, deciduous, shorter than spikelet. Lower glume 1.3 mm long, lanceolate, as long as upper glume, 1-keeled, 1-nerved; lateral
nerves absent, apex acute. Upper glume ovate, 0.75 times length of adjacent fertile lemma, membraneous, 1-keeled, 3-nerved, apex acute. Florets: fertile lemma 1.8 mm
long, ovate, membraneous, glandular on nerves, keeled, 3-nerved; apex acute. Palea keels scaberulous, eciliate. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though
underdeveloped. Lodicules 2, cuneate, fleshy. Anthers 3, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, ovoid, 4 mm long.
Notes
Found in China and Eastern Asia, Indo-China, Malesia, Australia, North and South America.
Distribution at Sulawesi
Celebes.
Habitat Specimen examined
Elbert 1909
BO. 36. 6.
Eragrostis dyskrytos Lasut, sp. nov. Fig. 2.
Ab omnibus speciebus malesianis in habitu annuo, culmis fasciculatis erectis, vaginae collo piloso, ligulis collariformibus ciliolatis, paniculis contractis laxis, ramis
infimis solitariis vel fasciculatis glabris in parte c. 0.23 infima, pedicellis 6—13 mm longi spiculis 4—5 mm longis longioribus, glumis inferioribus lemmatibus inferioribus
0.25-0.3-plo longioribus enervates, lemmatibus inferioribus acutis, paleis longe persistentibus, caryopsidibus fusiformibus 0.7—0.8 mm longis differt. --- Type:
Sabintoe 36, L, holotype; BO, N Sulawesi, G. Soputan, October 2004. Plants annual. Culms 0.35-0.55 m long, tufted, erect, branching intra-vaginally
at base, eglandular. Collar of the sheaths pilose. Ligule a ciliolate rim. Blades 9-13 cm by 1-2 mm. Panicle contracted to interrupted, 20-23 cm by 5-7 cm, at least the
lower axils of the panicle branches bearded, branches appressed to erecto-patent,
scaberulous, the lowermost ones aolitary or fascicled, 1-5 together, 5-8 cm long, naked in the lower 0.23-th part. Pedicels 6-13 mm long, longer than the spikelets. Spikelets
laterally compressed, 4-5 mm by 1-1.5 mm, disarticulating from the base upward, rhachilla persistent. Glumes unequal; lower glume 0.5-0.6 mm long, 0.25-0.3 times as
long as first lemma, acute, 0-1-nerved. Rachilla joints not visible between the lemmas to visible at maturity. First lemma 1.7 -2 mm long, acute. Paleas long-
persistent, keels scaberulous. Anthers 3, 0.2 mm long, 0.1-0.13 times as long as the lemma. Caryopsis fusiform, laterally somewhat flattened, dorsally not grooved, 0.7-
0.8 mm long. Pericarp smooth, dark tea-coloured.
Notes
In Malesia it seemed closest to Eragrostis pilosa L. P. Beauv.
Distribution at Sulawesi
North: G. Soputan Only known from the type.
Habitat Not
recorded.
Specimen examined
Sabintoe 36 L, BO, WALL.
Fig. 2. Eragrostis dyskritos Lasut. Left: habit. Bottom right: part of culm, sheath,
ligule, and blade. Centre right: floret and opened floret. Upper right: spikelet. Based on Sabintoe 36 BO.
36.7. Eragrostis japonica Thunb. Trin. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersbourg,
