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Spodiopogon cotulifer (Thunb.) Hack.   (redirected from: Saccharum cotuliferum (Thunb.) Roberty)
Family: Poaceae
[Andropogon cotulifer Thunb., moreAndropogon cotuliferum Thunb., Eccoilopus andropogonoides Steud., Eccoilopus cotulifer (Thunb.) A.Camus, Eccoilopus cotulifer subsp. densiflorus (Ohwi) T.Koyama, Eccoilopus cotulifer var. densiflorus Ohwi, Eccoilopus cotulifer var. sagittiformis Ohwi, Eulalia cotulifera (Thunb.) Munro, Miscanthus cotulifer (Thunb.) Benth., Saccharum cotuliferum (Thunb.) Roberty]
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Japan Flora: Tall tufted perennial; culms erect, simple, 80-120 cm. long, rather stout, resinously lustrous below the panicle; radical leaf-blades fiat, linear, 40-60 cm. long, 1-1,5 cm. wide, acuminate, grad­ually narrowed to the petiole, sparsely pilose or glabrous; lig­ules 2-4 mm. long, appressed-pubescent dorsally; sheaths smooth, the upper cauline not petiolate; panicles 20-30 cm. long, nodding; racemes loosely arranged, rather many, pendul­ous or nodding on rather long, nearly smooth, slender pedun­cles, 3-5 cm. long, sometimes branched at base, loosely spic- ulose; rachis persistent, with a tuft of short hairs at each node; joints and pedicels slightly thickened above; spikelets equal, lanceolate, terete, about 6 mm. long, scabrous, acuminate, white-pilose, pale green, rarely dull purple; glumes herbaceous, with raised nerves; fertile lemma with an exserted awn.  Sept.-Oct. Grassy places and thickets in low mountains.

Hok­kaido, Honshu, Shikoku,Kyushu; common and variable. Korea, Formosa, China, and India.

f. sagittiformis Ohwi. Radical leaves with blades sagittate at base.

Spodiopogon cotulifer
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