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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG056 : Panicum psilopodium Trin.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 619  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Panicum L. - panicgrass
Species : Panicum psilopodium Trin. - barefoot panicgrass
Plant Location in Melghat : In wet habitats  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  

 
Plant Common Name : K- Ludhi Zara
 
Synonym : Panicum flexuosum var glabrum Retz.
Panicum psilopodium var. coloratum Hook.f.
Panicum virgatum Roxb. ex Steud.


Description : Tufted annual; culms 14-120 cm high, erect or ascending, firm or spongy, rarely fastigiately branched above. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 545 cm long, 5-12 mm wide, subcordate at the base, flat, glabrous or rarely hispid with tubercle-based hairs, blunt or sharply acute. Panicle ovate or oblong, 5-35 cm long the branches naked below and whorled in the lower part of the panicle. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, 2.3-3 mm long, glabrous, abruptly acute, often grotesquely swollen in diseased plants; lower glume broadly ovate, a third to half as long as the spikelet, 5-7(-9)-nerved, acute; upper glume 11-nerved; lower lemma 9-nerved, its palea almost as long; upper lemma pallid, smooth and shining. 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 :