MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG057 : Panicum trypheron Schult. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 620 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent in river beds and open grasslands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Panicum neesianum Wight & Am. ex Steud. Panicum roxburghii Spreng. Panicum tenellum* Roxb. |
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| Description : | Tufted annual; culms (17-)30-90 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 7-30 cm long, 4-9 mm wide, flat, hispid with tubercle-based hairs, blunt or occasionally sharply acute; sheaths glabrous below, usually hispid above with tubercle-based hairs, especially on the margins. Panicle ovate or oblong, 10-25(-40) cm long. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, 2.8-3.5 mm long, glabrous, widely gaping at anthesis and remaining so to maturity, shortly acuminate; lower glume broadly ovate, two-thirds the length of the spikelet, 5-nerved, cuspidate-acuminate; upper glume 7-9-nerved, often cuspidate; lower lemma 7-nerved, it; palea about two-thirds as long; upper lemma yellowish-white, smooth and shining. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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