Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.
หญ้าสอนกระจับ Cenchrus echinatus L. POACEAE (GRAMINEAE) 4
Descriptions : Grass; ligule: bristly hairs, several layers thick; blade glabrous except for a few long hairs on inside just distal to ligule; inflorescence a raceme of spikes with an erect, central axis; spike with short, thick peduncle (stipe); thick involucre with approximately 9 or 10 sharp-pointed subulate lobes (connate basally) which are retrorsely scabrid; involucre with large retrorsely scabrid bristles and short hairs; spikelets 2-4, within involucre; spikelet: glume 1 (G1) small, shorter than G2; glume 2 (G2) nearly size of spikelet; lemma 1 (L1) present; palea 1 (P1) lacking?; lemma 2 (L2) and palea 2 (P2) present; flower: ovary with 2 whitish, plumose stigmas; stamens 3; spike and stipitate base breaking free to form a bur.
