Dinebra retroflexa

Description

An annual grass. It forms tufts which are straggling. These lie over and root at the nodes. The leaf blades are narrow and flat. It is green or purplish green and 50 cm high. The leaf blades are narrow and flat. They are 3-25 cm long by 0.3-0.5 cm wide. They taper to the tip. The flowerings stalk is 6-20 cm long and narrowly oblong and open. The flower is made up of many spikes all turned to one side and irregularly arranged.

Edible Uses

The seeds are harvested as a cereal grain.

Distribution

A tropical plant. It grows in dry valleys up to 1150 m in Yunnan in China. It grows on clayey soil. It grows in drier places. It does best in slightly alkaline soils.

Where It Grows

Africa, Asia, Burkina Faso, Central Africa, Chad, China, East Africa, Egypt, Eswatini, India, Madagascar, Mozambique, North Africa, Pakistan, South Africa, Southern Africa, St Helena, Swaziland, Zimbabwe,

Notes

There are 3 Dinebra species.

Synonyms

Also Known As

Am danabé, Kali kauli, Kharia, Nari balada ganduhullu, Wadata toka gaddi, Wan sui cao

References (7)

• Ambasta, S.P. (Ed.), 2000, The Useful Plants of India. CSIR India. p 173
• Chen Shouliang, Lu Shenglian, Wu Zhenlan, et al Poaceae Tribe 19 Eragrostidae Flora of China
• CRÉAC'H, (As Dinebra arabica)
• Fragm. bot. 77, t. 121, fig. 1. 1809
• Ideen Revis. Graus. 59, 60. 1813 (Denkschr. Koenig. Akad. Wiss. München 4:270. 1814)

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