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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG010 : Brachiaria reptans (L.) Gard. & C.E. Hubbard

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 567  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb. - signalgrass
Species : Brachiaria reptans (L.) Gard. & C.E. Hubbard
Plant Location in Melghat : In forest undergrowth and along stream and river banks  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Brachiaria prostrata (Lam.) Griseb.
Panicum prostratum Lam.
Panicum reptans Linn.
Urochloa reptans (Linn.) Stapf
Description : Annual, usually with decumbent stems rooting at the nodes; culms 15-60 cm high. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-7 cm long, 3-15 mm wide. Inflorescence of 5-15 racemes on an axis 1-8 cm long; racemes 14 cm long, bearing paired spikelets crowded on a triquetrous rhachis with hirsute pedicels. Spikelets narrowly ovate to broadly elliptic, 1.5-2.2 mm long, glabrous, acute, without a stipe; lower glume one eighth to a quarter the length of the spikelet, hyaline, clasping, truncate (sometimes a little longer and broadly ovate); upper lemma rugose, subacute, mucronulate. Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-October.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :