Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.

หญ้ายอนหู, หญ้าเม็ดงา Leptochloa chinensis (L.) Nees POACEAE (GRAMINEAE) 3

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Descriptions :
Grass Upright glabrous grass, broadened and flattened near base, 90 cm or more tall; leaf with a sheath; ligule membranous, a sheet of cohering hairs that can be teased apart; blade linear, tapering; inflorescence of many racemes branching from a main upright axis, a racemose arrangement of racemes; racemes not branched; spikelets single at each node, shortly pedicellate, alternating on abaxial side of rachis of raceme, thus secund; spikelets flattened laterally, without awns; glume 1 (G1) with pointed apex, 1 vein; glume 2 (G2) with pointed apex, 1 vein, longer than G1; spikelet with up to 6 florets, often with 5 or 4; lemma 3-veined, the 2 lateral veins weak; flowers bisexual, with 3 stamens, ovary with 2 red plumose stigmas; palea 2-nerved; G1 and G2 persistent, florests breaking free.