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MG014 : Chloris virgata Sw.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 574  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Chloris Sw. - windmill grass
Species : Chloris virgata Sw. - feather fingergrass
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : feather fingergrass, feathery Rhodes-grass, feather windmillgrass
 
Synonym : Chloris elegans Kunth
Chloris elegans (Kunth) Roberty
Description : Annual; caespitose. Basal innovations subterete, or flabellate. Culms geniculately ascending, or decumbent; 50–100 cm long; without nodal roots, or rooting from lower nodes. Leaf-sheaths keeled. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades 10–30 cm long; 2–6 mm wide. Leaf-blade apex attenuate. Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 4–12; digitate; spreading; unilateral; 2–10 cm long. Spikelet packing broadside to rhachis. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile. Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets cuneate; laterally compressed; 2.5–4.5 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus bearded; obtuse. Glumes persistent; similar; reaching apex of florets; thinner than fertile lemma; gaping. Lower glume lanceolate; 1.5–2.5 mm long; 0.5–0.6 length of upper glume; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume lanceolate; 2.5–4.5 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; membranous; 1-keeled; 1 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex setaceously attenuate. Fertile lemma obovate; laterally compressed; elliptic in profile; 2.5–4 mm long; cartilaginous; pallid, or dark brown; keeled; 3 -veined. Lemma midvein pubescent. Lemma lateral veins close to margins. Lemma surface with conspicuous apical hairs. Lemma margins pubescent. Lemma hairs 1.5–4 mm long. Lemma apex obtuse; awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn subapical; 5–15 mm long overall. Apical sterile florets 2 in number; barren; in a clump; oblong; 2–2.5 mm long. Apical sterile lemmas glabrous; awned (one of them); 1 -awned. Apical sterile lemma awns subapical; 5–12 mm long; 1 per spikelet in number. Lodicules 2; cuneate; fleshy. Anthers 3. Stigmas 2. FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; trigonous. Hilum punctiform.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :