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

หญ้าเจ้าชู้ Chrysopogon aciculatus (Retz.) Trin. POACEAE (GRAMINEAE) 3, 4

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Descriptions :
Grass with creeping, prostrate, rooting stems; branches ascending; leaf with sheath and blade; ligule a very short membrane; blade with acute tip, but not slowly tapering to sharp point; blade margins with bristle-like hairs; upper leaves on reproductive stem with very short blade; inflorescence of subwhorls of racemes arising from an erect central stem; rachis of raceme with golden appressed hairs; spikelets 3 per raceme, 2 pedicellate and 1 sessile; sessile spikelets: glume 1 (G1) with 3 veins, reddish; glume 2 (G2) present; lemma 1 (L1) membranous, transparent; palea 1 (P1) absent; flower absent or aborted; lemma 2 (L2) membranous transparent; palea 2 (P2) membranous; flower with 2 lodicules; stamens 3 (sometimes 4?), flower seemingly functionally male; sessile spikelet flattened laterally: glume 1 (G1) somewhat hardened; glume 2 (G2) hardened, keeled, with short awn; lemma 1 (L1) membranous; palea 1 (P1) absent; flower absent or aborted; lemma 2 (L2) membranous with awn; awn often 5-6 mm long, imperfect, not geniculate; palea 2 (P2) membranous; flower with 2 lodicules; flower bisexual; sessile spikelet with fruit, 2 pedicels and part of rachis break off as one piece and can attach to clothing or animals (the broken part of rachis a sharp pointed callus).