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MG117 : Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Sorghum Moench - sorghum
Species : Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Barwad, Johnson Grass, Aleppo grass, Aleppo milletgrass, jowar, baru, chinna, bajara, jangli-jowar, huchhu jola, impi jola, kaadu galagu hullu, kahijola, gaddi janu, Johnson grass
 
Synonym : Andropogon halepensis (L.) Brot.
Andropogon miliaceus Roxb.
Holcus halepensis L.
Milium halepense (L.) Cav.
Sorghum giganteum Edgew
Sorghum miliaceum (Roxb.) Snowden
Description : Johnson Grass is an erect, perennial, rhizomatous grass, to 3.5 m tall. It is a principal weed of corn, cotton, and sugarcane, and a weed of many crops throughout the world. Leaf-blades 20-90 cm long; 5-40 mm wide. Leaf-blade margins scaberulous. Inflorescence is a panicle with branches tipped by a raceme. Panicle are open lance-shaped or pyramidal, 10-55 cm long, 3-25 cm wide. Primary panicle branches are whorled at most nodes, moderately divided. Racemes are 1.2-2.5 cm long, bearing few fertile spikelets, bearing 1-5 fertile spikelets on each. Rhachis is fragile at the nodes, ciliate on margins. Rhachis internodes filiform. Rhachis internode tip transverse, cupuliform. Spikelets occur in pairs. Fertile spikelets are stalkless, 1 in the cluster. Companion sterile spikelets pedicelled; 1 in the cluster. Pedicels filiform; ciliate. Johnson Grass is native to eastern Europe, but now naturalized throughout the world.
 
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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 :