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MG100 : Dactyloctenium scindicum Boiss.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Dactyloctenium Willd. - crowfoot grass
Species : Dactyloctenium scindicum Boiss.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Dactyloctenium glaucophyllum Courb.
Dactyloctenium glaucophyllum var. elongation Courb.
Dactyloctenium glaucophyllum var. robustior Courb.
Eleusine glaucophylla (Courb.) Benth.
Eleusine scindica (Boiss.) Duthie
Description : Stoloniferous perennial forming extensive spreading mats; culms slender with swollen bases, 7-45 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat or loosely folded, tough and rather glaucous, 1-11 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, scattered papillose-hispid especially along the margins. Inflorescence composed of 34(5) slightly falcate oblong spikes 0.8-2 cm long forming a compact head, the spikes readily disarticulating at maturity from the top of the culm. Spikelets 3-9-flowered, broadly lanceolate to ovate, 4-8 mm long; glumes broadly elliptic in profile, the lower 1.7-2.5 mm long, the keel narrowly winged, the upper 1.5-2.3 mm long, the prominent scabrid keel extended into an awn half to as long as the glume; lemmas lanceolate in profile, 3-3.8 mm long, obtuse to acute with the scabrid keel extended into a mucro up to 0.8 mm long; palea-keels finely scabrid, unwinged; anthers 1.1-2 mm long. Grain 0.7-1 mm long, transversely rugose. Fl. & Fr. Per.: September-May.
 
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Reference : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 PMID :