Botany
Agor is a rufted, slender, glabrous, rather flaccid annual, 40 to 60 cm in height. Leaves are basal, distichous, up to 40 cm long. Umbels are decompound, rather lax and diffuse, 6 to 10 cm long. The spikelets are small, globose, 2 t 2.5 mm long, pale or brown, mostly slenderly pedicelled, some sessile. Nuts are obovoid, 0.5 mm long.

Distribution
Ubiquitous paddy weed throughout the Philippines, in open, wet places.
Pantropic.

Parts used
Leaves

Uses
Malays use leaves for poulticing in fever.

Availability
Wild-crafted.