Hairy fountain grass

Cenchrus pedicellatus, often known as deenanath grass or kyasuwa (and formerly placed in Pennisetum), is a tufted annual or short-lived perennial grass of the family Poaceae, native to seasonally dry savannas and disturbed lands of tropical Africa, with its range extending into parts of southern Asia and naturalised elsewhere. It forms loose tussocks of erect to geniculate culms 60–150 cm tall, often branching at the lower nodes. The leaf blades are flat, linear, 10–40 cm long and 5–12 mm wide, with finely scabrous margins and a short, ciliate ligule. The inflorescence is a cylindrical, bristly false spike 5–20 cm long, in which the spikelets are subtended and partly enclosed by an involucre of slender, antrorsely barbed bristles; these bristles are unequal in length, with one or two notably elongated. Spikelets are 3–5 mm long and contain two florets, the upper bisexual. The species colonises sandy and loamy soils in open grasslands, fallow fields, roadsides, and overgrazed pastures, and is widely grazed by livestock.