''Chrysopogon gryllus'' is a perennial
bunchgrass
Tussock grasses or bunch grasses are a group of grass species in the family Poaceae. They usually grow as singular plants in clumps, tufts, hummocks, or bunches, rather than forming a sod or lawn, in meadows, grasslands, and prairies. As perennial ...
of the family
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
, native to
Europe and tropical and temperate
Asia.
The grass grows to in height. Spikelets are associated in threes, of which the fertile one is unisexual with the other two staminal or not completely developed. The fruit is corn seed.
References
* Bor, N. L. 1960. The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan.
* Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
* Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
* Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of
estPakistan.
* Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
* Shukla, U. 1996. Grasses of north-eastern India.
* Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq
* Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. ''
Flora of Tropical East Africa
The ''Flora of Tropical East Africa'' (FTEA) is a catalogue of all 12,104 known wild plant species in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania. The project began in 1948 and was finally completed in September 2012. Approximately 1,500 new plant species were des ...
''.
* Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
* Tzvelev, N. N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR.
* Veldkamp, J. F. 1999. A revision of Chrysopogon Trin., including Vetiveria Bory (Poaceae) in Thailand and Malesia with notes on some other species from Africa and Australia. Austrobaileya 5:525–526.
External links
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Black Sea Environmental Internet Node entry— ''United Nations Environment Programme''.
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gryllus
Bunchgrasses of Asia
Bunchgrasses of Europe
Flora of Western Asia
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Grasses of India
Grasses of Pakistan