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| Halbi Name |
 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Bush grass | |
| Scientific name | Acroceras zizanoides (Kunth) Dandy | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Leaf blade 7-15 cm long, lanceolate, cordate; ligule 0.3-0.5 mm, membranous, fringed; sheath – margin always. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | bipinnated-flower |    |
| Fruit/ seed | ||
| Habitat and distribution | Slightly sloppy areas having red brown clay. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to November | |
| Associated with | Wetland flora | |
| Habit | Always perennial, often spreading, stoloniferous, stem 60-120 cm tall, often erect, branching, rooting at the nodes. | |
| Inflorescence | 10-25 cm long, composed of 4-7 branches, each 3-10 cm long with appressed branchlets. Spikelets – laterally compressed at the tip 5-6 mm long, 2- 2.5 mm wide, often solitary, binate, subsessile or pedicelled; glumes – g1 2/3 to 4/5 of spikelet, 3-5 nerved | |
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