MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG128 : Pennisetum purpureum Schumach. |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Elephant grass, merker grass, Napier grass, napier, Uganda grass, bana grass, barner grass, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pennisetum benthamii Steud. Cenchrus purpureus (Schumach.) Morrone |
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| Description : | In an overgrown abandoned lot at a street corner in Pisté, 12-ft-tall (3.7m) bunches of grass are surprisingly green here in the dry season. Overtopping the stems and blades the slender, spikelike inflorescences bend in the wind. The slender, spikelike inflorescences are very unlike like the broad, feathery panicles of Pampas-Grass, Giant Reed or any of the other very large ornamental clump-grasses, and the stems and leaves are too broad and stiffly erect to be similar to the Sand Cordgrass we saw on the coast this summer. Fact is, if you know your grasses, the slender, very fuzzy inflorescences shown in the last picture could belong to one of the North's abundantly weedy foxtail grasses, though who has ever seen a 12-ft-tall foxtail grass? The close-up of some bristle-based florets arising from their hairy rachis seems to support the foxtail. | |||||||||||||
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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 : |
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