Botanical Name - Ischaemum

----- ISCHAEMUM, Linn ;

----- Usually perennial grasses. Leaves convolute when young, eventually flat, usually narrow, sometimes petioled. Racemes solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate, fragile. Spikelets 2-nate, one sessile and one pedicellate, both dissimilar. Florets 2, generally the lower male, upper bisexual, rarely male of empty in the long pedicelled. spikelets. Glumes subequal, lower flattened or somewhat convex, rarely concave on the back, coriacious sometimes strongly nerved towards the apex, entire or 2-fid with more or less keeled, inflexed margins; upper glume boat-shaped, sometimes awned. Lemmas hyaline to rigidly membranous. The paleas hyaline, subequal to the lemmas. Lodicule 2, stamens 3, sometimes small or rudimentary in the fertile florets. Styles 2, free. Grain oblong or lanceolate, dorsally compressed.