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White swollen finger grass |
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| Vernacular name | Rhodes grass | |
| Scientific name | Chloris virgata SW. | |
| Family | Poaceae | |
| Season | Kharif | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Linear, tapering to a fine point with widen lamina | Photo Gallery |
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| Habitat and distribution | Fallow and cultivated land. | |
| Flowering and fruiting | July-October | |
| Associated with | Kharif crops | |
| Habit | Erect, tufted, leafy, grass with creeping stem, rooting below. Stems flattened. | |
| Inflorescence | Narrowly linear. Spike 6-15, closely crowded. Spiklets 2- rowed, with 4 glumes.Upper involucret glune awned. Lower, floral glume bifid at the apex. Caryopris polished, trigonous. | |
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