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MG113 : Arthraxon prionodes (Steud.)

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 558  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Arthraxon P.Beauv. - carpetgrass
Species : Arthraxon prionodes
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Andropogon prionodes Steud.
Andropogon serrulatus A. Rich.
Arthraxon serrulatus Hochst.
Bathratherum serrulatum Hochst. ex Steud.
Description : Perennial, arising from a knotty base covered in silky scales; culms up to 60 cm long, hard, wiry, trailing. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 2-7 cm long, 4-20 mm wide, tuberculate-ciliate on the margins, setaceously acuminate. Inflorescence of 2-8 racemes, each 4-7 cm long; internodes pilose. Sessile spikelet linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5.6.5 mm long; lower glume rounded on the back, spinously muricate on the keels and sometimes also on the indistinct dorsal nerves; awn 8-15 mm long; anthers 3, 2.5-3.5 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly lanceo¬late, 4-5 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-September or October.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :