Description
Pennisetum alopecuroides (L.) Spreng.), perennial. The fibrous roots are thicker. The culms are erect, clustered, densely pilose under the inflorescence. The leaf sheath is smooth, both sides are compressed, the upper part of the culm is longer than the internodes; the tongue has cilia about 2.5 mm; the leaf blade is linear, the apex is long and acuminate, and the base is warty hairs. The panicles are erect; the main axis is densely pilose; the total pedicel is 2-3 (-5) mm; the bristles are rough, light green or purple; the spikelets are usually solitary, sometimes twins, linear-lanceolate; the anthers have no vellus hair; Style base unites. The caryopsis are oblong, about 3.5 mm long. Leaf epidermal cell structure is different in the upper and lower epidermis; upper epidermal intervein cells 2-4 are long cylindrical, corrugated, and thin-walled long cells; epidermal intervein 5-9 are long cylindrical, thick-walled cells. Flower and fruit period in summer and autumn.
China is distributed from Northeast and North China through East China, Central South and Southwest provinces and regions; it is mostly born on fields, wastelands, roadsides and hillsides at an altitude of 50-3 200 meters. Japan, India, North Korea, Myanmar, Pakistan, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Oceania and Africa are also distributed.
It can be used as feed; it is also a raw material for weaving or paper making; it is also often used as an oil loquat for making oil by the local method; it can also be used as a sand-fixing plant for embankment
