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MG116 : Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass
Species : Eragrostis viscosa (Retz.)
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Eragrostis hirsutissima Peter
Eragrostis mangalorica Hochst. ex Miq.
Eragrostis retinorrhoea Steud.
Eragrostis strigosa Andersson
Eragrostis tenella var. viscosa (Retz.) Stapf
Eragrostis terebinthacea Kurz ex Stapf [Invalid]
Eragrostis transvaalensis Gand.
Eragrostis viscosa var. pilosissima (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Hochst.
Poa glutinosa Roxb. ex Stapf [Invalid]
Poa viscosa Retz.
Poa viscosa var. pilosissima Hochst. ex A.Rich.
Description : Tufted annual; culms 10-40 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, 4-10 cm long, 2-5 mm wide, sticky on the keel and margins towards the base; sheath sticky below the collar. Panicle ovate to narrowly oblong, 4-15 cm long, glabrous or pilose in the ails, the branches sticky from yellowish oblong glandular patches to which grains of sand and debris adhere. Spikelets 5-15-flowered, ovate-oblong, 1.4-4.5 mm long, yellowish to purplish, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes narrowly ovate, subequal, 0.6-1.2 mm long, the keel usually thickened by a linear sticky yellow gland, acute; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 0.7-1.4 mm long, glabrous, broadly obtuse, sometimes obscurely mucronate; palea-keels ciliate with hairs 0.1-0.2(-0.5) mm long; anthers 3, 0.2-03 mm long. Caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long.
 
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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 :