Oxytenanthera bourdillonii Gamble

• Habit
• Culms: Pluricaespitose
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled

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• Identification Features: Culms are straggling, with long internodes; Culm-sheaths 15-30 cm long, coriaceous, hispid, hairy at the base, with black hairs, auriculate; Leaves lanceolate, 15-22.5 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide; Inflorescence a large panicle of spicate branchlets bearing globular heads of many spikelets; Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, oblong, hilum linear.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Kerala)
• Altitude: 900-1500 meter
• Uses: Toothpicks, Combs, Edible shoots