Acratherum miliaceum Link (1827) Arundinella miliacea (Link) Nees (1840: 417 Arundinella (Gramineae) in Malesia with notes on other taxa and on aluminium accumulation Veldkamp, J. F. Blumea 2015 2015-03-06 59 3 167 179 5W47V Trin. Trin. [837,1155,1088,1111] Liliopsida Poaceae Arundinella Plantae Poales 6 173 Tracheophyta species nepalensis    Arundinella nepalensis Trin. (1826)62; (1830) t. 268. — Type:  Wallichex Herb. Lindley in Herb. Trin.402.1(holo LE, IDC microfiche BT-16/1; very likely the same as 8666-A, CGE, K, IDC microfiche 7394).    Acratherum miliaceum Link (1827)230. —  Arundinella miliacea(Link) Nees (1840: 417, 447, in passim), (1850) 102; Druce (1917)605, isonym. — Type: ‘Nepal’ (B†, Scholz in litt.;? K, LE, Herb. Trin. 402.2, IDC microfiche BT-16/1). For further synonymy see Bor (1955: 404).  Plants perennial. Culmstufted, erect, 0.6–2(–3) m long. Nodesglabrous to bearded. Sheathsusually glabrous and margins hairy. Throathairy. Ligule 0.2–1 mmhigh, ciliolate. Bladesflaccid to rather stiff, flat to involute, linear, 8–50 cmby 3–18 mm, glabrous to pilose on both sides, margins scaberulous. Peduncleunder the panicle usually glabrous, sometimes with a few hairs. Panicledensely contracted to fairly lax, interrupted at base or not, 10–60 by 5–7(–13) cm wide, lowermost branch solitary, 3.5–16 cmlong, angular, smooth to scaberulous, not pilose. Pedicelssmooth to scaberulous. Spikelets(3.4–) 4–6 mmlong, greyish green or purple. Glumesglabrous, rarely setose; lower glume 2.6–5 mmlong, 0.64–0.86 times as long as the spikelet, distinctly shorter than the lower lemma, apex acute, acuminate, or mucronate, 3-nerved; upper glume 5-nerved, apex acuminate to long-acuminate. Lower lemma neuter or male, (2.3–) 2.7–3.6 mmlong, 5-nerved, apex acute; upper lemma 1.7–2.5 mmlong, castaneous in fruit (whitish in flower), smooth or microscopically scaberulous (40 ×!), 0-nerved, callus hairs 0.3–0.5 mmlong, 0.16–0.33 times as long as the lemma, apex acute, without lateral setae, apex of the pedicels not setose, awn distinctly exserted beyond the glumes, geniculate, 2.7–6 mmlong when dry, column 0.7–3.2 mmlong when dry. Anthers3, 0.7–1.7 mmlong. 2n = 20, 40, 54, 60. Distribution — Because of all the misapplications not quite certain. Very variable: see remarks by Bor (1955: 406): Africa (widespread), Madagascar, Arabia, N Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, India(widespread), Burma, Thailand( Chiang Mai), Vietnam, China(widespread), Australia(W Australia, N Territory, New South Wales, Queensland). Note — Although occurring north and south of Malesia, it has so far not yet been found there. All reports have turned out to be misapplications to  A. filiformis,  A. furva, or  A. goeringii. [1018,1121,1135,1153] LE, IDC, A, CGE, K Wallich Herb. Lindley in Herb. Trin. 6 173 1