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Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn .
ibugibugi (N); te uteute (K); mouku (T)
syn. Cynosurus indicus L.
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"wiregrass", "goosegrass"
Pre-World War I1 introduction. India; long naturalized in Old and New Worlds.
Abundant. Ascending tufted annual or perennial grass, usually growing in tufts, with
flattened pale green stems, with hairy nodes; leaves, 6 to 30 cm long and 3 to 8 mm
wide, mostly glabrous, scabrous on the midvein and upper margins; inflorescence, 2 to 7,
flattened, fingerlike terminal branches or spikes, 4 to 12 cm long and 3 to 7 mm wide,
radiating from the tip of a flowering stem (culm), up to 30 cm tall, with one or two
spikes slightly below the tip; spikelets 3 to 6 mm long; seeds, about 1.5 mm long, dark
green to dark-reddish-brown, ridged, crowded in two rows on one side of the spike.
Growing in rather dense concentrations or colonies in gardens and waste places. 2,
3(58660), 4(147N, 154N), 5(65), 6, 7, 8(9544).
Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Hook. & AiHove grass", "Japanese lovegrass"
ibugibugi, ibiugibiug, bahibahi (N); te uteute n' aine (K); mouku (T)
syn. Poa amabilis L.; Eragrostis tenella (L.) Beauv. ex R. & S.
Recent introduction? Old World. Common. Small, rather delicate, annual grass,
usually branched or spreading at the base but sometimes erect, up to 30 cm tall, with
delicate wiry stems, 15 to 45 cm long; leaves, 3.5 to 10 cm long and 1.5 to 4 mm wide,
slightly rough on the upper surface, smooth on the lower, with tufts of long hairs at the
summits of the sheaths; inflorescence, a flowering stem (culm), 5 to 15 cm long, bearing
short, rather delicate, branches and numerous, often reddish-purple, 4- to 6-flowered
spikelets, about 1 to 1.5 mm long, in open panicles. Weed occurring in scattered clusters
around buildings, paths, and other ruderal places. 2(28.5), 3(58626), 4(148N), 5(66), 6,
7, 8(9539).
Lepturus repens (Forst. f.) R. Br. var. subulatus Fosb'l bunchgrass", "beach bunchgrass"
ibugibugi, ibiugibiugi (N); te uteute (K); mouku (T)
syns. Rottboellia repens F0rst.f. ; Monoerma repens (Forst. f.) Beauv.
Indigenous. Pacific Is. Occasional. Freely-branching, creeping grass with stems,
up to 40 cm long, rooting at the nodes; leaves, 7 to 20 cm long and 3 to 7 mm wide,
narrowly lanceolate to linear, often with inrolled margins; inflorescence, protruding,
solitary, long-awned spikelets embedded in a narrow, jointed, cylindrical flowering spike,
6 to 15 cm long and 1 to 2 ~nln in diameter, which disarticulates at maturity. Occurring
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in clu~G~am6~ &and vetation. 3(58605,587%), 5(8q, 5, 7.