MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG059 : Paspalidium geminatum (Forssk.) Stapf |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 622 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In wet habitats,also floating in ponds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Egyptian Panicgrass, Egyptian Watercrown Grass, Egyptian paspalidium | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Panicum fluitans Retz. Panicum geminatum Forssk. Panicum paspaloides Pers. |
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| Description : | Perennial, with creeping or floating ± spongy rhizomes; culms 10-60 cm high, prostrate and rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades 5-30 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, flat or folded, setaceously acuminate. Inflorescence 5-30 cm long; racemes 0.54 cm long, usually less than their own length apart, their rhachis narrowly winged from a triquetrous midrib, 0.5-1 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely ciliate. Spikelets ovate, 1.6-2.6(2.9) mm long; lower glume truncate, a quarter to a third the length of the spikelet; upper glume two-thirds to four-fifths the length of the spikelet; lower floret with a palea, its lemma as long as the spikelet, the nerves not raised; upper lemma granulose. Fl. & Fr. Per.: mostly October-January, but sometimes as early as August or as late as March. | |||||||||||||
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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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