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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG011 : Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 568  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb. - signalgrass
Species : Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb.
Plant Location in Melghat : Common wasteland grass, usually in shady places;  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf
Brachiaria setigera var. albistyla Basappa & Muniy.
Echinochloa setigera (Retz.) P.Beauv.
Oplismenus prostratus Edgew. [Invalid]
Panicum affine Poir.
Panicum procumbens var. setigerum (Retz.) Nees
Panicum prostratum var. setigerum (Retz.) Büse
Panicum setigerum Retz.
Urochloa cordata Keng f. ex S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin
Urochloa setigera var. albistyla (Basappa & Muniy.) Karthik.
Description : Culms ascending from a prostrate, straggling base, to 50 cm; nodes pubescent to villous. Leaf-blades 5-12 x 0.6-2 cm, glabrous, margins scabrid and basally long ciliate; ligule to 0.1 cm. Racemes 4-7, obliquely erect, to 5 cm, subsessile; rachis to 0.3 cm wide, angular, scabrid. Spikelets lanceolate, to 0.5 cm, glabrous; pedicels to 0.15 cm, usually with a few bristles. Lower glume broadly ovate, to 0.15 cm, 3-5-veined; upper glume ovate-lanceolate, to 0.5 cm, 7-9-veined. Lower lemma 5-veined; palea broadly oblong, to 0.4 cm, acuminate; upper lemma broadly elliptic, to 0.3 cm, mucro to 0.02 cm.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :