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

Distribution
In disturbed soil, open waste places, old clearings, etc, at low and medium altitudes.
Pantropic.

Uses
Folkloric
In Behar, prescribed internally, for conjunctivitis.
With a little sweet oil, in caes of enlarged spleen and liver.

Availability
Wild-crafted.