MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG028 : Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panzer |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 589 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Lona, K-Kilam Musri | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cynosurus coromandelianus Rottler ex Hook.f. [Invalid] Cynosurus paniculatus Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid] Cynosurus retroflexus Vahl Dactylis madraspatensis Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid] Dactylis paspaloides Willd. [Illegitimate] Dinebra aegyptiaca Delile [Illegitimate] Dinebra aegyptiaca Kunth Dinebra arabica Jacq. Dinebra brevifolia Steud. Dinebra paspaloides P.Beauv. [Illegitimate] Dinebra retroflexa var. brevifolia (Steud.) T.Durand & Schinz Eleusine calycina Roxb. Leptochloa arabica (Jacq.) Steud. Leptochloa arabica (Jacq.) Kunth Leptochloa calycina (Roxb.) Kunth Leptochloa coromandelina Steud. |
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| Description : | Loosely tufted annual; culms up to 112 cm high, slender, usually straggling and ascending from a decumbent base, often rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves glandular especially on the sheaths; leaf-blades 4.5-28 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, finely pointed. Inflorescence 8-34 cm long, linear or elliptic-oblong to pyramidal; spikes 0.6-5(7) cm long, stiff, ascending at first, reflexing and deciduous at maturity. Spikelets 1-3-flowered, narrowly wedge-shaped, 5.7-9 mm long, closely over-lapping on the flattened, narrowly green-winged rhachis; glumes narrowly elliptic with caudate curving tips, 6.1-8.2 mm long, coriaceous, asymmetric, usually over-lapping on the abaxial side and obscuring the florets, glandular along the keel; lemmas narrowly ovate, 2.1-2.9 mm long, appressed pilose along the lateral nerves and on the lower half of the back around the central nerve, acute to emarginate, mucronulate; palea appressed pilose on the flaps alongside the keels. Fl. & Fr. Per. May-October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Neurological disorders | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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