Setaria punctata Burm.f. Veldk. Blumea 391: 381. 1994.
persistent bristles, 6-11 per spikelet, 1.5-8 mm long, antrorsely scaberulous. Pedicels reduced to a stump. Fertile spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets, 1 fertile florets,
without rachilla extension; lanceolate, dorsally compressed, 2.2-2.8 mm long, falling entire. Glumes shorter than spikelet, thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume 1.1-1.4
mm long, ovate, 0.5 times length of spikelet, membraneous, no keels, 3-5-nerved; apex acute. Upper glume ovate, 1.3-1.8 mm long, 0.5 times length of spikelet,
membraneous, no keels, 5-nerved; apex acute. Florets: basal sterile florets barren, with palea; lemma ovate, as long as spikelet, membraneous, 5-nerved. Fertile lemma
lanceolate, dorsally compressed, 2-2.6 mm long, indurate, no keel; surface rugose; margins involute; apex acute. Palea involute, indurate; surface rugose. Anthers 3. 1.2-
1.6 mm long. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
Notes
Found in Europe, Africa, China, India, Indo-China, Malesia, Australasia, Pasific, North and South America.
Distribution at Sulawesi
North: Gorontalo. Central: Toboli-Parigi, Alt c. 600 m. South: Boeloe Parigi bij Tannete, Alt. 560 m; Lombasang, Alt. 950 m; Basito Parang, Alt. 50 m; Malino, Alt.
280 m; Mt. Galesong, Alt. 320 m; Matano Lake, Malili. Southeast: Kendari, Angora village, Alt. 10 m; Mt. Wolasi, Kandimura village, Alt. 50 m; 121 km from Kendari
towards Kolaka, Alt. 160 m; Kesio, Lalolae, Alt. 275 m; 139 km from Kendari towards Kolaka, Alt. 300 m; Transmigration village, Mt. Wolasi, Alt. 100 m; Buton Island,
Bau-Bau, Alt. 50 m. Habitat
As component of tall grassland in assosiation with Bothriochloa, Sorghum nitidum; outside the rain forest behind houses, cleared forest, open shrub forest margin
along road side, near a rice field, edges of the field. Specimen examined
leg. ign. 27 BO; leg. ign. 46 BO; Bunnemeijer 11023, 10614, 10784, 10880 BO; Meijer 418 BO; Mehra 10, 27, 86, 98, 96, 25 BO; Kjellberg 109 BO.