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Bayer Code : erame

Scientific name: Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) Janchen


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Eragrostis cilianensis (All.) F. T. Hubbard, Eragrostis major Host, Eragrostis megastachya (Koeler) Link.

Classification: Gramineae, Monocotyledonous

Common name: stink-grass

Synonym(s) of Common name:lovegrass

Name per country: DE : Großähriges Liebesgras ; ES : eragrostis ciliado ; FR : éragrostis à gros épillets ; IT : panicella ; PT : milhã-brava ; EN : stink-grass ;

Biological type: Annual


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling:

- Shoot rolled, leaf sheath terete.

- Leaf blade circa 10 times longer than broad, leaf more or less hairy.

- Ligule surrounded with a ring of hairs, auricles absent, basal tufts of hairs on each side of the leaf blade.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-50 cm.

- Stem more or less spreading.

- Leaves lower glabrous with a serrate border.

- Inflorescence : very simple panicle, with solitary or someti-mes in pairs branches and slightly divided. Spikelets 2-3 mm, terminal on short pedicels, sometimes with 40 florets but usually with 15 to 30 florets densely closed. Glands on pedicels and on the keel of glumes and lemmas. Principal branches with a hairy axil.

- Fruits : subglobose. Naked caryopsis after shedding.

- Strong scent when fresh.

- Risk of confusion with Eragrostis minor Host. and at seedling stage with the other species of Eragrostis .

- Biological type: Annual.

Mistake with: Eragrostis minor , Eragrostis


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