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Leersia hexandra

Authority Sw. Family Liliopsida:Commelinidae:Cyperales:Gramineae Synonyms Common names Editor Ecocrop code 7200

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BRIEF DESCRIPTION An aquatic, scrambling, stoloniferous grass up to 40-60 cm high with bright green, very rough, sharp edged, 5-13 mm wide leaf-blades. USES Most palatable when young, it makes a good hay but is difficult to harvest from swamps and is usually cut when the swamps dry out. GROWING PERIOD Perennial grass. COMMON NAMES Swamp rice grass, Swamp cut grass, Lambedora grass. FURTHER INF The latitudinal range of swamp rice grass is 30°N-S and it can be found at elevations between sea level and 2200 m. It is common in swamps and ditches in standing water, in valley bottoms and in permanently swampy parts of river plains that are under 3 m of water in the flood season and on floating grass islands as in Logtak Lake, Manipur, India. It can become a serious weed in rice fields. Yields of green herbage between 7-14 t/ha have been reported.
Sources
Grassland Index Skerman P 1990 pp 494496 [DRA, RAIN, TEXT] Bogdan A 1977 pp 164 [DRA, USE] Paijmans K 1976 pp 39