Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Indroda Park, Punit Van
About Paspalidium flavidum Plant :
Habit : An annual grass with stem compressed, leafy, branches from the decumbent base.
Leaves : Bifarious, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, or ligulate with a rounded tip, sheats compressed, lower tumid, smooth hairy.
Inflorescence and Flowers :
Spikes few or many, distant.
Spikelets 2-20, very pale sessile.
Glumes membranous, white with green nerves, third glume neuter or male, fourth glume sometimes almost orbicular, white or brownish, very minutely rough.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : October
Significance :
The grass is considered to be an excellent fodder and the grain is collected and eaten in times of scarcity.
The leaves and roots are said to be slightly cyanogenetic.
