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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG034 : Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 595  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass
Species : Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. - pond lovegrass
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Chinzari Zara
 
Synonym : Diandrochloa diarrhena (Schult.) Henry
Diandrochloa diplachnoides (Steud.) Henry
Diandrochloa japonica (Thunb.) Henry
Eragrostis diarrhena (Schult.) Steud.
Eragrostis diplachnoides Steud.
Eragrostis interrupta (Lam.) Doell.
Eragrostis interrupta var. diarrhena (Schult.) Stapf
Eragrostis interrupta var. diplachnoides (Steud.) Stapf
Eragrostis interrupta var. koenigii (Kunth) Stapf
Eragrostis interrupta var. tenuissima (Schrad.) Stapf
Eragrostis koenigii (Kunth) Steud.
Eragrostis tenellula (Kunth) Steud.
Eragrostis tenuissima Schrad. ex Nees
Poa diandra Roxb.
Poa diarrhena Schult.
Poa interrupta Lam.
Poa interrupta* Koen. ex Roxb.
Poa japonica Thunb.
Poa koenigii Kunth
Poa tenella* R. Br.
Poa tenellula Kunth
Roshevitzia diplachnoides (Steud.) Tzvelev
Roshevitzia japonica (Thunb.) Tzvelev
Description : Tufted annual or short-lived perennial; culms 10-150 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, up to 30 cm long and 5 mm wide; ligule membranous, 0.3-0.6 mm long, truncate, fimbriate. Panicle linear, 4-50 cm long; branches ascending close to the main axis or spreading and the panicle lanceolate to narrowly ovate or branches contracted in dense remote pseudo-whorls, typically 3-14 cm long, bare towards the base, the spikelets shortly pedicelled and appressed to the secondary branchlets or longer pedicelled and spreading. Spikelets 4-14-flowered, ovate-oblong, 1.3-3 mm long, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes narrowly ovate to broadly oblong-elliptic, subequal, 0.4-0.7 mm long, acute to obtuse; lemmas broadly ovate, 0.7-1 mm long, obtuse; anthers 2, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-October or December.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity :
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :