Botanical Name - Eragrostris unioloides

----- Eragrostis uniloides, Nees , F. B. I. V. 7. P. 317. Vern. Udara gaddi ( Tel ).

----- Annual grass culms up to 1 1/2 ft. tall, slender, erect or ascending from a geniculate base, sometimes prostrate. Leaves cordate at the base, tapering to an acute tip, smooth, flat. Sheath smooth, glabrous, naked at the throat. Inflorescence an oblong or ovoid panicle contracted or with spreading branches, pink to red in colour. Spikelets of many flowers, ovate in shape, compressed. The shape of the spikelet and the red colour of the inflorescence are characteristics of this species.

----- Found in damp places near over-flowers, and wet cultivation, also noticed in moist and water stagnant areas in the Warangal District forests.