Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C. E. Hubb.

Description:

Kampung Belukar, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.Rhynchelytrum repens (Willd.) C. E. Hubb. Poaceae. CN; [Malay - Rumput natal, Rumput dawai], Natal red-top, Rose Natal grass, Natal grass. Native to South Africa and naturalized pan-globally. An invasive weed in agricultural areas. Annual; stem tufted and slender, erect, ca 30 cm high. Leaves 5-20 cm long and 2-8 mm wide, tapering to the tip, usually hairy, sheath sparsely hairy. Ligule a minutely hairy rim; hairy about the sheath and leaf-base. Inflorescence a panicle from end of shoots, 10-20 cm long, beautifully silky reddish, purplish, pinkish or white, branches delicate and spreading. Sipkelets covered with fine purplish silvery hairs, stalks slender and with a few long fine hairs at tip; each spikelet with two florets, the lower sterile, the upper bisexual; the upper empty glume and the lower flowering glume with awns. Synonym(s):Melinis repens (Willd.) ZizkaSaccharum repensTricholaena repensTricholaena roseawww.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?31730en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinis_repens