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MG125 : Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Panicum
Species : Panicum sumatrense (Roth ex.)
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Little Millet,
 
Synonym : Panicum miliare auct. non Lam.
Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. psilopodium (Trin.) Wet. Panicum sumatrense Roth ex Roem. & Schult. subsp. sumatrense
Description : Annual. Culms erect or decumbent, 20–60(–150) cm tall, nodes dark in color, glabrous. Leaves cauline; leaf sheaths loose, glabrous; leaf blades linear, flat, 8–40 × 0.4–0.8 cm, glabrous, base cordate to straight, apex acute or tapering; ligule ca. 1 mm, a ciliolate membrane. Panicle terminal, oblong or ovate in outline, 10–40 cm, densely branched and drooping or sparsely branched and erect; branches slender, scaberulous. Spikelets oblong in outline, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous; lower glume broadly ovate or cufflike, 1/4–1/3 length of spikelet, 3-veined, bluntly acute; upper glume as long as spikelet, 9–13-veined; lower lemma similar to upper glume, palea present or absent; upper floret brown or yellow, smooth, shiny. Fl. and fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 54.
 
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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 :