Notes
Found in Malesia, Australasia, and Northwestern Pasific.
Distribution at Sulawesi
North: Minahasa, Rumbia.
Habitat Specimen examined
Elbert 3081 BO.
36.9. Eragrostis minor Host. Icon. Descr. Gram. Austriac. 4: 15. 1809.
Eragrostis botterii E. Fourn., Mexic. Pl. 2: 115. 1886; Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 41: 81-115.
Eragrostis eragrostis L. P. Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. : 71-, 174, t. 14, f. 11. 1812; Rhodora 80823: 390-403. 1978.
Eragrostis pappiana Chiov. Chiov. Annuario Reale Ist. Bot. Roma 83: 371. 1908.
Eragrostis poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. Schult. Syst. Veg. 2: 574. 1817.
Plants annual, caespitose. Culms up to 13 cm long, less than 0.5 mm thick, geniculately ascending, branching intravaginal, glabrous. Nodes glabrous; internodes
c. 3 cm long, glabrous. Sheaths 2 cm long, with scattered nodular hair up to 2 mm long. Ligule less than 1 mm long, a fringe of hairs. Blades 3 cm long by 2 mm long,
inroled when dried, margin with nodul, base cuneate, apex acuminate, the surface glabrous on both side. Inflorescence 5 cm long, a panicle, panicle branches stiff.
Spikelets solitary; fertile spikelets pedicelled; pedicels oblong, 2 mm long; fertile spikelets comprising c. 15 fertile florets, with diminished florets at the apex, oblong,
laterally compressed, breaking up at maturity; rachilla persistent; retaining paleas. Glumes deciduous, similar, shorter than spikelet. Lower glume ovate, 1.6 mm long, as
long as upper glume, 1-keeled, 1 – 3-nerved, apex acute. Upper glume ovate, 0.7 times length of adjacent fertile lemma, 1-keeled, 1 – 3-nerved, apex acute. Florets: fertile
lemma ovate, 1.5 mm long, chartaceous, glandular on nerves keel, keeled, 3-nerved; lemma lateral nerves distinct, apex obtuse. Palea keels scabrous; apical sterile florets
resembling fertile though underdeveloped. Anthers 3, 0.3 mm long. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, oblong, 0.7 mm long.
Notes
Found in Europe, North Africa, Siberia, Western Asia, Arabia, China, Mongolia, Indo-China, Malesia, Australasia, North and South America.
Distribution at Sulawesi
Central: Palu, Alt. 75 m 80 m. Southeast: Boeton Island, Bau-Bau.
Habitat
Opened area, on the road side.
Specimen examined
Kjellberg 36 BO; Kurniawan 122 WALL; Papa 168, 169 WALL; Lasut 943 WALL.
36.10.
Eragrostis pilosa L. P. Beauv. Ess. Agrostogr. 71, 162, 175. 1812.
Eragrostis baguirmensis Chev., Rev. Int. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 29: 135, t. 7B. 1949; Wageningen Agric. Univ. Pap. 92-12: 1-557. 1992.
Eragrostis damiensiana Bonnet Thell. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 323. 1928.
Eragrostis gracilis Schrad. Linnaea 124: 451. 1838. Eragrostis linkii Kunth Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 273. 1854; Grass. Burma,
Ceylon, India Pakistan, i-xviii, 1-767. 1960. Eragrostis multicaulis Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 426. 1854.
Plants annual, caespitose. Culms 10-55 cm long, geniculately ascending. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Blades 3-17 cm by 2-4 mm. Inflorescence an opened panicle.
Panicle ovate, dense, or loose, 5-24 cm long; branches whorled at lower nodes, branches eglandular, bearded on axils. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
Pedicels eglandular. Fertile spikelets comprising 4-15 fertile florets, with diminished florets at the apex; spikelets linear, 3-6 mm long, laterally compressed, breaking up at
maturity, rhachilla persistent, shedding paleas. Glumes dissimilar, deciduous, shorter than spikelet. Lower glume 0.6 mm long, ovate, 0.5-0.7 times legth of upper glume,
hyaline, 0-keeled, 0-nerved, lateral nerves absent, apex acute. Upper glume ovate, 1 mm long, 0.6-1 length of adjacent fertile lemma, hyaline, 1-keeled, 1-nerved; lateral
nerves absent apex acute. Florets: fertile florets appressed to rhachilla. Fertile lemma ovate, 1-1.5 mm long, membraneous, keeled; lemma apex obtuse. Palea keels
scaberulous. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped. Anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, ellipsoid, laterally compressed,
0.5-1 mm long.
Notes
Found in Europe, Africa, Siberia, Western Asia, Arabia, China, Mongolia, India, Indo-China, Malesia, Australia, North and South America.
Distribution at Sulawesi
North: Manado. Central: Palu. South: Palopo.
Habitat
Opened area.
Specimen examined Andel
s.n. BO; Kjellberg 3032 BO; Kurniawan 122 WALL.
36.11. Eragrostis tenuifolia A. Rich Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1:268.
