guccha :
Morphology:
It is a grass; 1.5-2.1 m high, copiously branched above and forming a large
decompound nodding panicle. Culms up to 10 mm in diameter at the base,
solid, pale polished, with black finely pubescent or glabrescent nodes; leaves
narrow with conspicuous white midrib, lower about 15 mm wide, upper
cauline rarely over 9 mm wide, narrowed to the base, apex filiform, glaucous
beneath, glabrous except sometimes at top of sheath, with scabrous margins;
ligule scarious, 22.5 mm long, glabrous or ciliate. Panicle ultimate branches
strict with 2-3 peduncles and spathules from each spathe; Spathules 10 mm
to about 2.5 mm, peduncles of spatheoles filiform 13-18 mm very shortly
exerted from the spathe; spikes soon strongly reflexed on their common 10
mm, long peduncle, base swollen ciliate, spikes 10-13 mm long unequally
pedicelled, joints and pedicles rather slender 2-2.25 mm not elavate (tip only
dilated and toothed), villous, sessile spikelet, not tightly squeezed between
joint and pedicel not covered by their hairs, 4-5 mm long, glume 1 oblong -
lanceolate, flat or slightly concave below, hyaline and neiveless or with 2
green nerves between the keels which are not or very narrowly winged above
the middle, scabrous and slightly excurrent, proper margins inflexed
throughout (Kirtikar & Basu, 1994).
