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Aristida funiculata Trin. & Rupr., Sp. Gram. Stip. 159. 1842. and in Mem. Acad. Sci. Petersb., ser. 6, 7(2): 159. 1843; Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:492. 1884; Duthie, Fodder Grasses 47. 1888; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:226.1896; Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 214. 1935; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:352. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 410. 1960; Bor, in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:365. 1970.
Vern.: Lamb.
Aristida funiculata var. mallica (Edgew.) Henr.Aristida funiculata var. royleana (Trin. & Rupr.) Hook. f.Aristida kotschyi Hochst. ex Steud.Aristida macrathera A. Rich.Aristida mallica Edgew.Aristida royleana Trin. & Rupr.
Tufted annual with wiry culms 15-30 cm high. Leaf-blades flat or folded. 4-10 cm long and up to 2 mm wide. Panicle linear, up to 10 cm long, few-flowered. Spikelets green, tinged with brown; glumes linear, membranous, the lower (11-) 13-22 mm long, the upper (10)12-20 mm long, both finely attenuate; lemma, cylindrical, about 4 mm long, scabrid above, articulated at the apex; callus about 2 mm long, conical, pungent; column (0.8-)2-4.5 cm long, the base as wide as the summit of the lemma, straight for a short distance, thereafter strongly twisted; awn-branches subequal, 2.5-4.5 cm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: June -September.
Type: Senegal ,Leprieur (P).
Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab & Kashmir); tropical East Africa, through Arabia to the Middle East and India.
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