MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG009 : Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 566 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 : |
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