Kew Bull. 9: 375 (1954).- Type: Meyen, Chile (holo- B, destr.).
Lachnagrostis phleoides Nees & Meyen, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 19 (suppl. 1) : 146 (1843);
Calamagrostis phleoides (Nees & Meyen) Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 251 (1840).
Regional litterature: FTEA: 100, fig. 34 (1970); Fl. Ethiopia & Eritrea 7: 43, fig (1995); Pl. Sudan & S Sudan: 131 (2015)
Description:
* Annual of 10-40 cm high. Culms tufted or solitary. Leaves scaberulous, especially on the upper side; ligule a ciliale pinted membrane 2-5 mm long..
* Inflorescence in a linear or linear-elliptic panicle of 3-12 cm long, pale green and glistering.
* Spikelets linear or linear elliptic, 4.5-6.5 mm long, the rhachilla extended as a short hairy bristle; callus rounded with white barbs of 0.7 mm long. Glume narrowly acuminate, the upper about ¾ as long as the lower. Lemma 1.2 mm long, pilose, awn much longer than the lemma with a brown twisted column, 4.5-6.5 mm long.
Distribution West Africa: Cape Verde, Sudan.
Distribution world-wide: Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Uganda, DRC, and NE, E, and southern Africa, Mediterrean Asia and Arabia; introduced in Australia and the Americas.