Seete-Che Pohe / Chinese Lovegrass
Eragrostis unioloides
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Maharashtra & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Seete-Che Pohe
Identify Seete-Che Pohe by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Confirm fruit surface: Smooth, not spiny.
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- In India, compare location records such as Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam and nearby regions.
- Confirm it sits within the Poaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Seete-Che Pohe.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Eragrostis unioloides
- Genus
- Eragrostis
- Family
- Poaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Bunds of paddy fields, streams, banks of backwaters and waste places
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan
- Found in India
- Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Assam, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Goa, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Nagaland, Sikkim, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Least Concern (LC)
Leaf characters
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Typical of the Poaceae family — a field-mark hint, not measured for this exact species.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit surface
- Smooth, not spinyrecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Grain
Characters marked “recorded” are for Seete-Che Pohe itself; the rest are typical of the Poaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Nepali
- तिल्के झार Tilke Jhaar
- Malayalam
- അവിൽപ്പുല്ല്
- Marathi
- सीतेचे पोहे Seete-che pohe
About Seete-Che Pohe
Chinese Lovegrass (Eragrostis unioloides) is a herb in the Poaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and 22 other states. It grows in bunds of paddy fields, streams, banks of backwaters and waste places. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Poaceae
Grass family
Seete-Che Pohe belongs to the Poaceae family.
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