Invasive Alien Species
Species Name: Eriochloa polystachya
- Family Name:
- Eriochloa subglabra (nash) Hitchc.
- Tropical America, West Indies
- Perennial, tufted, usually creeping at the base, sometimes erect, 5-150 cm tall. Stem cylindrical or slightly compressed. Leaf sheaths ribbed, at the base on the nodes densely and finely hairy, the free margin finely fimbriate; ligule a fringe of hairs, the articulation zone pale; both sides densely short-hairy; blade linear, flat, bluish-green, 6-25 cm x 6-15 mm. Inflorescence erect, terminal, 12-24 cm long bearing apically 6-15 pseudo spikes; the higher spikelet solitary, the middle one solitary or in pairs on unequal, spikelet 2-3.8 mm long, 1-2 flowered, green or more or less purplish, the upper flowers bisexual, the lower one if present male. Caryopsis free between the hardened upper glume and lower lemma.
- Invaded Habitat:
- Marshes and pools, river banks, in and along drains and ditches, inundated and rain-fed rice fields.
- Imported in Java long time ago, so far only found in Java and Tanimbar island.
- In areas with a strong to medium dry season, sunny to lightly shaded, permanently or periodically marshy or wet sites.
- Backer , C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen Van Den Brink. 1965. Flora of Java Vol. III. N.V. P. Noordhoff. Groningen, Netherlands.
- Soerjani, M., A. J. G. H. Kostermans & Gembong Tjitrosoepomo (Eds.). 1987. Weeds of Rice in Indonesia. Balai Pustaka. Jakarta