Botany
Gingetkaran is a grass with stems 20 to 60 centimeters high, erect, at length much-branched and softly hairy. Leaves are 5 to 15 centimeters long, 0.5 to 1.2 centimeters wide, flat, hairy on both surfaces, the margins ciliate. Spikes are 1 to 2 centimeters long and slender, resembling a string of minute beads. Sessile spikelets are 1 to 2 millimeters long, about 1 millimeter in diameter; the pedicellate ones are equal in length to the sessile or longer of the two equal green glumes.

Distribution
- From the Batanes Islands to Mindanao, in most islands and provinces, in disturbed soil, open waste places, old clearings, etc, at low and medium altitudes.
- Pantropic.

Uses
Folkloric
- In India, whole plant parts used as hepatogenic or hepatoprotective.
- In Behar, prescribed internally, with a little sweet oil, in cases of enlarged spleen and liver.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
(1)
Hackelochloa granularis (L.) Kuntze / Chinese names / Catalogue of Life, China
(2)
Medicinal Plants Against Liver Diseases / Pandey Govind / IRJP 2(5) 2011, pp 115-121