Brown's Lovegrass

Perennial. Culms slender, tufted, erect or geniculate at base, 15–60 cm tall, 0.5–1 mm in diam.,2–5-noded. Leaf sheaths glabrous and smooth, pilose along summit; ligules membranous, ca. 0.2 mm; leaf blades flat or involute, 3–10 cm × 1–3 mm. Panicle 3–18 cm; branches solitary with spikelets at base. Spikelets livid green, purplish or dark brown, oblong-elliptic, 4–20 × 1.5–2.5 mm, 7- to many-flowered, subsessile or with very short pedicel, apex acute. Glumes ovate-lanceolate, 1–2 mm; lower glume 1-veined, ca. 1.2 mm; upper glume 1–3-veined,the laterals usually faint, ca. 1.8 mm. Lower lemmas 2–2.5 mm. Palea slightly shorter than lemma, 1.5–2 mm, ciliolate along keels, apex emarginate. Stamens 3; anthers 0.3–1.3 mm. Caryopsis dark brown, ca. 0.5 mm. Fl. spring.

Anhui, Fujian, Hainan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka; Australia, Pacific Islands].

Mountain slopes, open places, roadsides; ca. 1000 m.

Poa brownii Kunth, Révis. Gramin. 1: 112. 1829; Eragrostis zeylanica Nees & Meyen; E. bellissima B. S. Sun & S. Wang.

Eragrostis brownii is a widespread species of grass known as Browns lovegrass. Found in Australia and New Zealand, it may be seen growing in woodland or pasture. The grass may grow up to .6 m (2 ft 0 in) tall. The specific epithet brownii is named in honour of the Scottish botanist Robert Brown.

Eragrostis brownii là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Kunth) Nees mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1834.