Trees & Plants

Couch panicum

Kudhihui

Panicum repens L.

Common in open areas of marshy habitats Widely used as a forage species. Being tolerant to salt, it is used for reclaiming saline or soils.Fresh juice of the internode portion of the plant is used as an eye drop to cure eye irritation. Paste of fresh stolon mixed with to black pe

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uses: Widely used as a forage species. Being tolerant to salt, it is used for reclaiming saline or soils.Fresh juice of the internode portion of the plant is used as an eye drop to cure eye irritation. Paste of fresh stolon mixed with to black pepper is taken to cure piles. × ×
family: Poaceae
synonym: Panicum arenarium Brot., Panicum grossarium Forssk.
description: Perennial grass. Culms 30-75 cm long, rhizomatous, rooting at the lower × nodes. Leaves 7-24 0.4-0.7 cm, linear or linear-lanceolate, base shallowly cordate, apex acuminate, distichous, glaucous, scattered- pubescent on the upper surface; sheaths to 7 cm long, ciliate along the margins; ligules membranous, with dense tuft of hairs behind. Panicles 6-18 cm long. Spikelets 2.5-3.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, acute; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Lower glume ca. 1 × × 1.5 mm, ovate. Upper glume 2-3 1-1.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Lower floret male. × Upper floret bisexual. First lemma 2-3 × 1-1.5 mm, ovate-lanceolate. Palea ca. 2.5 1 mm, oblong-lanceolate, hyaline, 2-keeled. × Stamens 3. Second lemma 1.5-2. 0.5-1 mm, oblong, subcoriaceous. Palea elliptic, subcoriaceous. Stamens 3. Ovary ovate; stigma ca. 1 mm long.
native range: The Old World
distribution: Widespread in the tropics and subtropics
english names: Couch panicum · Torpedo grass · Victoria grass
flowering fruiting: July – September
occurrence maldives: Common in open areas of marshy habitats