Botanical Name - Aristida adscensionis

----- Aristida adscensionis, Linn. F.B.I. V.7.P. 224 (A. depressa, Retz) Vern. Shipri Mullo, Shipri Mulva, Pilli-Biser gaddi (Tel).

----- Annual or perennial culms up to 4 to 6 ft., base shortly decumbent. Leaf blade convolute, filiform, smooth or scraberulous; sheath with rounded auricle; ligule a ridge of hairs. Inflorescence of spreading terminal panicle, made up of spikelets. Spikelets purplish, one flowered, from the top of which a tripartite awn issues.

----- It is found in sandy, dry or rocky places all over the State. Not eaten by cattle or sometimes eaten after teh fall of the tripid awns. Culms after removing the sheatg are made into sweeps and brooms. It is also used for thatching roofs.