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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG105 : Dichanthium filiculme (Hook.f.) Jain & Deshpande

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Dichanthium Willem. - bluestem
Species : Dichanthium filiculme (Hook.f.) Jain & Deshpande
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Poaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Capillipedium filiculme (Hook.f.) Stapf
Andropogon filiculmis Hook.f.


Description : Annual herbs; culms 30-80 cm long, slender, weak, creeping or geniculate; nodes villous or glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-5 x 0.4-0.6 cm; ligules ovate, acute, membranous. Panicles 3-10 cm long, open or contracted; joints 1-2 mm long, ciliate. Sessile spikelets oblong or elliptic, 2-3 mm villous or glabrous; callus shortly bearded; lower glume ovate, acute, 2-2.5 x 1 mm long, subcoriaceous, 7-nerved, sparsely villous or glabrous; upper glume oblong-lanceolate, 2-2.5 x 1 mm, chartaceous, faintly 3-5 nerved, margins delicate, hyaline; lower floret empty; upper floret bisexual; first lemma oblong, obtuse, 1-1.5 x 0.75 mm, delicate, hyaline; second lemma stipitate, 1-2 mm, delicate; awn 10-12 mm long, column c. 5 mm long; stamens 3, anthers 1-1.5 mm long; ovary oblong, c. 0.25 mm; styles 0.5-1 mm long, slender, stigmas 1-1.5 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets usually reduced or sterile; pedicels 1-2 mm long, ciliate.
 
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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 :