Eragrostis japonica Thunb. Trin. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersbourg,

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,

Ser.6, Sci. Math. 14: 405. 1830. Diandrochloa diarrhena Schult. Schult. f. A.N. Henry. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 9: 290. 1968; Blumea 471: 157-204. 2002. Diandrochloa glomerata Walter Burkart. Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 12: 287. 1968. Diandrochloa japonica Thunb. A.N. Henry. Bull. Bot. Surv. India 9: 290. 1968. Diandrochloa namaquensis Nees ex Schrad. De Winter. Bothalia 72: 388- 389. 1960. Eragrostis aturensis Kunth Trin. ex Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 1: 562. 1840; Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41: 81-115. 2001. Eragrostis aurea Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 267. 1854; Blumea 35: 393-458. 1991; Blumea 471: 157-204. 2002. Eragrostis conferta Elliot Trin. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersbourg, Ser. 6, Sci. Math. 14: 409. 1830; Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41: 81-115. 2001. Plants annual, caespitose. Culms up to 50 cm long, 2 mm thick, terete, hollow, glabrous. Nodes glabrous; internodes up to 5 cm long, glabrous. Sheaths c. 7 cm long, usually longer than the internodes, persistent, glabrous. Ligule less than 0.5 mm long, a ciliolate membrane. Blades up to 20 cm long by 4 mm long, margin slightly serulate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, the surface slightly serulate on a adaxial side, glabrous on abaxial side. Inflorescence c. 30 cm long by c. 3 cm long, a panicle, contracted about secondary branches; primary panicle branches ascending. spikelets solitary; fertile spikelets pedicelled, comprising 5 – 7 fertile florets, with diminished florets at the apex, oblong, laterally compressed, breaking up at maturity, disarticulating below each fertile floret. Glume persistent, similar, shorter than spikelet. Lower glume ovate, c. 0.5 mm long; as long as upper glume, 1-keeled, 1-nerved, lateral nerves absent, apex obtuse. Upper glume ovate, slightly shorter than adjacent fertile lemma, 1-keeled, 1- nerved, apex acute. Florets with fertile lemma ovate, c. 0.6 mm long, membraneous, keeled, 3-nerved, apex obtuse. Palea keels smooth; apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped. Anthers 2, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, ellipsoid, 0.3 mm long. Notes Found in Eastern Europe, North Africa, Western and Eastern Asia, Arabia, China, India, Indo-China, Malesia, Mexico, Mesoamericana, and Brazil. Distribution at Sulawesi South: Wattan Soppeng, Walemping, Alt. 580 m; Tompokbalang, Maros, Alt. 20 m. Habitat Old rice fields near a spring. Specimen examined Vuuren Noerkas 124 BO; Soenarko 258 BO.

36.8. Eragrostis lasioclada Merr. Philipp. J. Sci. 1Suppl.: 382. 1906.