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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG009 : Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 566  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb. - signalgrass
Species : Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Gramineae  

 
Plant Common Name : Banspate, Browntop Millet, Makra, Murat, Bennakki hullu, Benne akki hullu, Kaadu baragu hullu, Chama pothaval, Banspate, Pala pul, Anda korra, Eduru gaddi
 
Synonym : Echinochloa ramosa (L.) Roberty
Panicum brachylachnum Steud.
Panicum cognatissimum Steud.
Panicum nidulans Mez
Panicum pallidum Peter
Panicum ramosum L.
Panicum supervacuum C.B.Clarke
Urochloa ramosa (L.) T.Q.Nguyen


Description : Browntop Millet is a loosely clustered annual grass, with culms 10-70 cm high. Leaf-blades are broadly linear, 2-25 cm long, 4-14 mm wide. Inflorescence of 3 racemes are borne on an axis 3-10 cm long; racemes are 1-8 cm long, simple or the longest with branchlets at the base, bearing mostly paired loosely contiguous spikelets appressed to the triquetrous rhachis; flower-stalks shorter than the spikelets, 1-2 mm long. Spikelets are elliptic to broadly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, hairless or velvet-hairy, pointed to cuspidate, with or without a stipe up to 0.5 mm long. Browntop Millet is widely found in the Tropical world, at altitudes of 200-1800 m. Flowering: July-October.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :