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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG064 : Rottboellia exaltata (L.) L. f.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 627  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Rottboellia L. f. - itchgrass
Species : Rottboellia exaltata (L.) L. f. - itchgrass
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Manisuris exaltata (Linn. f.) O. Ktze.
Rottboellia arundinacea Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Description : Tall annual supported below by stilt roots, the basal sheaths painfully hispid; clums 30 cm to 3 m high. Leaf-blades broadly linear, up to 45 cm long and 2 cm wide. Raceme 3-15 cm long, glabrous, terminating in a tail of reduced spikelets, gathered into a spatheate false panicle. Sessile spikelet oblong-elliptic, pallid; tower glume 3.5-5 mm long; upper glume with the keel narrowly winged towards the tip. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly ovate, 3-5 mm long, herbaceous, green; pedicel shorter then the internode. Fl. & Fr. Per.: September-October.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :