Compilation
Eragrostis manikensis

Caespitose perennial from a short underground rhizome, the basal sheaths ± persistent, sometimes fibrous and tomentose; culms 10–120 cm. high, erect or sometimes geniculate. Leaf-blades convolute or flattened, 7–35 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide, firm, glaucous. Panicle narrowly ovate and spreading or linear and contracted, 4–11 cm. long, the spikelets shortly (1–2 mm.) pedicelled on the primary branches or sometimes on short secondary branchlets. Spikelets 3–35-flowered, ovate to suborbicular, 3.5–15 mm. long, 3–7 mm. wide, plump, brownish green suffused with purple and with light brown glumes, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes ovate to ovate-elliptic, subequal, 3–4 mm. long, 1–3-nerved, acute to acuminate; lemmas broadly elliptic, 2.5–4 mm. long, cartilaginous with a granular surface, distinctly 3-nerved, rounded on the back, subobtuse; palea falling soon after the lemma, the keels minutely puberulous, neither thickened nor winged; anthers 3, 1.4–1.8 mm. long. Caryopsis elliptic, dorsally flattened, 2 mm. long. Fig. 61/6, p. 193.