Brachiaria ovalis Stapf

Brachiaria ovalis is a grass of very arid regions and is considered to be an excellent fodder grass.

Tufted annual; culms 10-50(150) cm high. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 3-25 cm long, 2-12 mm wide. Inflorescence of 3-15 spreading or appressed racemes borne on an axis 4-15 cm long; racemes 3-7 cm long, bearing single or paired spikelets loosely spaced on a triquetrous rhachis; pedicels shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets elliptic, 2.5-4.5 mm long, glabrous or papillose pubescent, obtuse to acute, with a stipe 0.3-0.7 mm long; lower glume a quarter to half the length of the spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma thinly cartilaginous, smooth, slightly shiny; upper lemma granulose to rugulose, as long as or up to 1 mm shorter than the spikelet, subacute to mucronulate.

Distribution: Pakistan (Sind); Kenya and Sudan to southern Arabia.

Brachiaria ovalis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Stapf mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1919.