Ochlandra ebracteata Raizada & chatterji
- Habit
- Culms: Tufted
- Culm Diameter: 2 - 4 cm
- Culm Internode Length: 35 - 45 cm
- Wall thickness: Thin-walled
- Height: 3 - 4.6 meter
- Identification Features: Culm Color-Green, reed-like, gregarious; Culm-sheaths 13-25 cm long, hispid, with dark brown or black hairs, truncate at apex, auriculate; Leaves lanceolate or oblong, 40-50 cm long; Inflorescence a flagellate spike of sub-verticillate to verticillate clusters of sessile spikelets; Caryopsis with fleshy pericarp, Endosperm farinose.
- Flowering Cycle:
- Distribution: India (Kerala)
- Uses: Pulp and paper, Handicrafts, Dried seed powder used as Cattle feed