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Schoenefeldia gracilis Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1:283, t.53. 1830. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5: 553. 1884; Duthie, Fodder Grasses 52. 1888; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2: 273. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 474. 1960; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70: 450. 1970.
Chloris myosuroides Hook.f.Chloris pallida (Edgew.) Hook.f.Schoenefeldia pallida Edgew
Annual; culms tufted, erect or geniculately ascending, 10-90 cm high, glabrous and smooth. Leaf-blades up to 25 cm long, 3 mm broad, scaberulous on both sides or smooth beneath, glabrous or pilose towards the base. Spikes 1-4, 3-20 cm long, straight or slightly flexuous, pale, slender, the rhachis 0.4-0.6 mm wide. Spikelets 3-5 mm long, 1-flowered; glumes shortly aristate, the lower 2.54.5 mm long, the upper 3-5 mm long; lemma 2-2.5 mm long, with a scaberulous awn 2-4 cm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: May-June.
Type: Senegal, Kunth (K).
Distribution: Pakistan (Sind & Baluchistan); tropical Africa, Arabia and India.
Gregarious in dry sandy places. This species is easily recognised by the beautifully braided awns of its spikes.
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