MG103 : Cynodon arcuatus J.Presl |
|
|
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
579 |
|
| Class |
: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Order |
: Cyperales |
| Family |
: Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus |
: Cynodon Rich. - Bermuda grass |
| Species |
: Cynodon arcuatus |
|
| Plant Location in Melghat : |
Bhimkund stream (Belkund) |
|
| Plant Category : |
Grasses |
|
| Plant's Current Status : |
Rare |
|
| Plant Family : |
Gramineae |
|
|
| |
| Plant Common Name : |
- |
| |
| Synonym : |
Cynodon intermedius Rang. & Tad.
|
|
| Description : |
Widely creeping stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes. Culms slender, 20-80 cm high. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-15 cm long, 3-6(10) mm wide, glaucous, scaberulous, sparsely hairy at the base, auricles and orifices glabrous or pilose; ligule membranous, ciliolate on the upper edge, about 0.5 mm long. Racemes usually 4-8, 5-10 cm long, thin, flexuous, slightly drooping, in a single whorl. Spikelets 1.8-2.2 mm long; glumes lanceolate, 1-nerved; lemma pubescent on the keel and lateral nerves often with pointed clavate hairs; palea glabrous, keels smooth or rarely scaberulous; anthers about 0.5 mm long; caryopsis unequally trigonous and laterally compressed. |
| |
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
|
| |
| Plant's Phytochemicals : |
|
|
| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
|