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Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees.
Common Name : Chinese sprangletop
Family : Poaceae
An aquatic or semi-aquatic tufted annual or
perennial grass.
Stout to slender, erect or geniculate culms up to
1.5 m tall, often rooting at the lower nodes.
Leaf-sheath loose, subglaucous, smooth, up to
10 cm long; ligule a fringed, hairy membrane,
1-2 mm long; leaf-blade linear, up to 50 cm x 1
cm, long-attenuate, flat or folded, scabrid
above.
Inflorescence 10-60 cm long, composed of
numerous slender racemes scattered along an
elongate central axis; racemes flexuous, 2-13
cm long, erect or laxly ascending.
Spikelets 3-7 flowered, narrowly ellipticaloblong,
2-3 mm, subsessile, often purplish,
disarticulating above the glumes and between
the florets.
Caryopsis ellipsoid-oblongoid, 6-9 mm long,
brown, smooth or wrinkled.
Weed ID Manual 201