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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG051 : Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 613  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Melanocenchris
Species : Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Gracilea royleana (Nees ex Steud.) Hook.f.
Melanocenchris royleana Nees ex Steud.
Amphipogon humilis Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
Pommereulla royleana Steud. [Invalid]
Description : Annual; culms fasciculate, rarely solitary, geniculately ascending, 6-25 cm high. Leaf-blades 1.5-6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, scaberulous above and on the margins, and with sparse whitish tubercle-based hairs at the base; sheaths with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Heads 5-10(-12) on a rhachis 24 cm long. Glumes, including the awns, up to 8 mm long, rarely longer, usually with white or occasion-ally purple hairs, the lower a little longer than the upper; lowest lemma 3-lobed, the lobes aristate, the central longer and narrower at the base than the laterals, 4-4.5 (-5.5) mm long; palea equalling the lemma or slightly shorter than it. Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-September.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :