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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG035 : Eragrostis namaquensis Nees ex Schrad.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 596  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass
Species : Eragrostis namaquensis Nees
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Diandrochloa namaquensis (Nees ex Schrad.) De Winter
Eragrostis interrupta var. namaquensis (Nees ex Schrad.) T. Durand & Schinz
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.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :