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
From my trip to Thailand - May 28th - 4th June 2011, most moths were found at the various temples which had metal hallide bulbs fitted to them. The ones labelled 'Hang Dong' came to my 22w Actinic light.Please feel free to help aid identification or correct my proposed identifications.
