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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG016 : Chrysopogon serrulatus Trin.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 576  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Chrysopogon Trin. - false beardgrass
Species : Chrysopogon serrulatus Trin.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : K-Khedi Zara
 
Synonym : Andropogon ciliolatus Nees ex Steud.
Andropogon coeruleus Nees ex Steud.
Andropogon monticola var. trinii (Steud.) Hook. f.
Andropogon trinii Steud.
Chrysopogon ciliolatus (Nees ex Steud.) Boiss.
Chrysopogon fulvus var. serrulatus (Trin.) R. R. Stewart
Chrysopogon wightianus var. leucanthus Thw.
Description : Perennial; culms 30-100 cm high, erect, robust. Leaf-blades mostly cauline, up to 30 cm long and 5 mm wide, but sometimes basal and much shorter, bluntly acute to acuminate, glabrous or sometimes with a few tubercle-based hairs. Panicle ovate, 3-12 cm long, with delicate capillary branches fulvously bearded at the tip. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong; lower glume 4-7 mm long, laterally compressed to a rounded keel, hispidulous at the tip; upper glume glabrous or with a few white hairs on the keel, bearing an awn 6-10 mm long; upper lemma minutely bidentate, with a glabrous or pubescent awn 2-3(-3.5) cm long. Pedicelled spikelets (3-) 4.5-8 mm long, lower glume bearing an awn 3.5-6.5 mm long; pedicels fulvously villous, a quarter to a third the length of the sessile spikelet. Fl. & Fr. Per.: (June-) August-September.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :