Family - Indian Society of Weed Science

Habit :
Culm :
Leaves :
Flowers :
Fruits :
278
Strong perennial.
Common Name : Wild sugarcane
Family : Poaceae
1-2 m tall, tufted; solid above, fistular below,
polished, silky below panicles and minutely
silky below upper leaf-insertions.
Erect, glaucous, midrib white, margins scabrid,
often villous above base, sheath longer than
internode.
Panicle conical-oblong, with 3-15 cm long
fragile racemes, joints and pedicels; branches
ascending, usually reddish or purplish,
primary rachis silky with long, white hairs.
Caryopsis 2 mm long, oblong.
Saccharum spontaneum L.
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