MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG058 : Paspalidium flavidum (Retz.) A.Camus |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 621 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On moist hill slopes along stream banks | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Yellow Watercrown Gras | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Panicum brizoides Jacq. Panicum flavidum Retz. |
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| Description : | Tufted perennial; culms 10-120 cm high, erect or ascending from a prostrate base. Leaf-blades 8-30 cm long, 4-13 mm wide, flat or folded, blunt at the tip and sometimes hooded. Inflorescence 8-30 cm long; racemes 1-2.5(3) cm long, distant by 2-4 times their own length, their rhachis very narrowly winged from a triquetrous midrib, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, glabrous or minutely ciliate. Spikelets ovate, gibbously globose, 2-3 mm long; lower glume truncate or ± orbicular, a third to half as long as the spikelet; upper glume half to three-quarters as long as the spikelet; lower floret with a palea, its lemma as long as the spikelet the nerves not raised; upper lemma granulose. Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-October. | |||||||||||||
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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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