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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG131 : Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.) Hook.f.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Pseudanthistiria
Species : Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.)
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  

 
Plant Common Name : Fully gavat
 
Synonym : Andropogon heteroclitus Nees.
Anthistiria heteroclita Roxb.
Hypogynium heteroclitum (Roxb.) Roberty.
Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.
Pseudanthistiria intermedia Birari & D'Cruz.
Sorghum heteroclitum (Roxb.) Kuntze


Description : Culms slender, geniculate at base, 30–50 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or hispid near margins; leaf blades linear, 8–15 × 0.3–0.5 cm, veins distinct, hispid with tuberculate-based hairs on both surfaces, base subrounded, apex acuminate. Compound panicle 10–30 cm; spatheoles lanceolate, 7–12 mm, setose near margins, the hairs arising from conspicuous, sometimes dark-colored tubercles, apex finely acuminate. Racemes with 1–2 spikelet pairs and a terminal triad. Sessile spikelet linear-oblong, 3–4.5 mm; lower glume firmly membranous, shallowly convex, scaberulous or puberulous toward apex varying to appressed-pubescent throughout; upper lemma longerthan glumes; awn 2–3 cm, column pubescent. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, 4.5–5.5 mm, lower glume loosely setose with tuberculate-based hairs near apex. Fl. and fr. Sep–Dec.
 
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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 :