Finger grass (Chloris Barbata)

Rumput kembang goyang atau swollen fingergrass atau purpletop chloris atau finger grass (Chloris Barbata) is a plant species in Poaceae, upright, up to 90 cm high, cylinder -shaped rods, green or yellow and spit out.

C. Barbata has a ribbon -shaped leaf and green. Inflorescence in panicle at the upper end of the stem, branching on a shaft and reddish-colored.

Finger grass grows to form a tight colony in the forest, agricultural land, riverbank, roadside, cliffs and places with a lot of sunlight.

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Chloridoideae
Tribe: Cynodonteae
Subtribe: Eleusininae
Genus: Chloris
Species: Chloris barbata

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