MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG061 : Pennisetum hohenackeri Hochst. ex Steud. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 624 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream beds andonvery moist open lands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K- Mohda Zara, Fountain Grass | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pennisetum alopecuros Nees ex Steud. Cenchrus hohenackeri (Hochst. ex Steud.) Morrone (Unresolved) Cenchrus hordeiformis Rottler ex Steud. [Invalid] Gymnotrix alopecuros B.D.Jacks. [Invalid] Pennisetum alopecuros var. occidentale Pilg. Pennisetum catabasis Stapf & C.E.Hubb. |
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| Description : | Perennial, forming large tussocks with thick tough roots; culms 60-150(-200) cm high, erect. Leaf-blades narrowly linear, 15-40 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, rigid, tightly folded, ribbed on the outside, the ribs smoothly flat-topped on the inside; sheaths markedly keeled and imbricate. Panicle linear, 10-25 cm long; rhachis with shallow angular ribs below the cupular scars, scaberulous; involucre enclosing 1 sessile spikelet, the base with a short oblong stipe 0.3-0.5 mm long; bristles glabrous, the longest 6-30 mm long. Spikelets narrowly lanceolate, 6.5-11 mm long; lower glume up to a quarter the length of the spikelet, acute, rotund or truncate; upper glume one-third to half as long as the spikelet, acute to emarginate; lemmas similar, the lower male or barren, the upper firmer in texture; anther tips with or without a minute tuft of hairs. | |||||||||||||
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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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