Phragmites karka (Retz.) Trin. ex Steud.

Robust , herbaceous , erect , strongly tufted perennial reed , with extensive , creeping , branching rhizomes or stolons . Stems (culm) erect , 2–4(–10) m , very stout , often woody with hollow internodes and glabrous nodes . Leaves alternate , simple , 30–80 cm x 12–40 mm ; sheaths longer than the internodes , imbricate and tight at first , later slipping off the stem , dorsally rounded , striate , glabrous or pilose near the mouth ; ligule c . 1 mm long , fringed with hairs ; blade linear , 20–80 cm × 1–4 cm , base broadened , margin smooth or rough , apex stiff and tapering-acute , glabrous above , scabrid beneath towards the apex , usually with 2–3 shallow depressions . Inflorescences a loose panicle 20–75 cm long with a rather robust central axis and repeatedly branched , thin , rough , erect or nodding branches which are crowded in groups . Spikelets 10–12 mm long , on pedicel 2–10 mm long , 3–7-flowered , rachilla with numerous , thin , white-silvery hairs 4–8 mm long ; lowermost floret sterile or male and ... persistent , succeeding florets bisexual and disarticulating below each fertile floret ; glumes boat-shaped , ovate-lanceolate , 3–4 . 5 mm long , 3(–5)-veined , acute , awnless , upper glume larger than lower one ; lemma narrowly elliptical , 7–12 mm long ; palea 2 . 5–3 mm long , scabrid on the veins ; stamens 2 or 3 ; pistil with stipitate ovary , 2 styles with plumose stigmas exserted laterally near the base of the spikelet . Fruit a caryopsis (grain) , crowned by the stylar base . (Ref . https://uses . plantnet-project . org) .

No Data

Not Evaluated (NE)

Not Common

Arundo karka Retz.
Arundo roxburghii Kunth
Calamagrostis karka (Retz.) J.F.Gmel.
Phragmites roxburghii Steud.
Trichoon karka (Retz.) Roth
Trichoon roxburghii W.Wight