Ischaemum molle Hook. fil.

This species is easily confused with Ischaemum rugosun, form which it differs by the faintly rugose rather than transversely ridged, and often ciliate lower glume of the sessile spikelet. Typically a swamp grass not previously recognised in Pakistan for what it is, the cited specimens having earlier been thought to be Ischaemum rugosum.

Tufted perennial; culms erect or geniculately ascending, 25-130 cm high, often robust, usually branched. Leaf-blades 15-30 cm long, 6-13 mm wide. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, of paired racemes each 4-14 cm long; intemodes and pedicels clavate, ciliate. Sessile spikelet broadly ovate, 5.6 mm long; lower glume coriaceous and nodular on the margins below, the back smooth and shining or faintly ruguose, membranous above, densely ciliate to quite glabrous, 2-keeled along its length; upper lemma with an awn 12-20 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet resembling the sessile or often much smoother, and on a pedicel about one-third the length of the internode.

Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab); India