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Sacciolepis indica (L.) Chase   (redirected from: Sacciolepis oryzetorum (Makino) Honda)
Family: Poaceae
[Aira indica L., moreHymenachne indica (L.) Buse, Panicum angustum Trin., Panicum indicum (L.) L., Panicum indicum var. oryzetorum Makino, Panicum phalaroides Roem. & Schult., Sacciolepis angusta (Trin.) Stapf, Sacciolepis indica subsp. oryzetorum (Makino) T.Koyama, Sacciolepis indica var. oryzetorum (Makino) Ohwi, Sacciolepis oryzetorum (Makino) Honda, Sacciolepis spicata (L.) Honda, Sacciolepis spicata var. oryzetorum (Makino) Yonek.]
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Japan Flora: Gla­brous, soft annual; culms tufted, erect, smooth, 10-40 cm. long, from a branching, ascending or decumbent base; leaf­blades linear, 4-10 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide, glabrous; ligules very short, hyaline; sheaths rather short, glabrous; panicles spikelike, long-exserted, erect, cylindric, 1-6 cm. long, pale green, 4-6 mm. across, densely flowered, the axis smooth; pedicels short, slightly dilated and concave at apex; spikelets about 3 mm. long, acute, numerous, narrowly conical-ovoid, slightly oblique, often sparsely white-pilose; first glume ovate, about half as long as the spikelet, the second longer, narrowly ovate-oblong, prominently several-nerved; sterile lemma slightly shorter, not inflated at base; fertile lemma crustaceous, lus­trous, narrowly ovoid-oblong, rather acute, pale yellow, about 1.5 mm. long. Aug.-Oct. Wet paddy fields and river­banks. 

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common.  India, China, Malaysia, Korea, Ryukyus, Formosa, and Australia.

var. oryzetorum (Makino) Ohwi Culms erect, 30-60 cm. long; leaves 10-20 cm. long, 3-6 mm. wide; spike purplish, 3-12 cm. long, erect, densely flowered. Paddy fields and along river­banks; Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; common. Ryukyus, For­mosa, and China.

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