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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG141 : Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A.Camus

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Bothriochloa
Species : Bothriochloa pertusa (L.) A.Camus
Plant Location in Melghat : Grasslands and among bunds of fields, roadsides and open places  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : POACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Amphilophis pertusa (L.) Stapf
Amphilophis pertusa var. barbata (A.Camus) E.G.Camus & A.Camus
Andropogon armillaris Willd. ex Steud., nom. nud.
Andropogon pertusus (L.) Willd.
Andropogon pertusus var. barbatus A.Camus
Andropogon pertusus var. wightii Hack.
Bothriochloa nana W.Z.Fang
Dichanthium pertusum (L.) Clayton
Elionurus pertusus Nees ex Steud., pro syn.
Holcus pertusus L.
Lepeocercis pertusa (L.) Hassk.
Sorghum pertusum (L.) Kuntze
Description : Perennials. Culms 40-80 cm long, tufted, erect, creeping or geniculate; nodes bearded. Leaves 4-18 x 0.2-0.4 cm, oblong or lanceolate, apex acuminate, usually crowded at base, hairy, glaucous; sheaths to 7 cm long, keeled; ligule membranous. Racemes 2-7 on a peduncle, digitate or subdigitate, each one 3-6.5 cm long, pilose. Sessile spikelets 3-4 mm long, elliptic-lanceolate; lower glume 3-4 x 1 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, shortly 2-fid at apex, densely hairy below the middle, with a deep circular pit above the middle; upper glume oblong-lanceolate, equalling the lower; lower floret empty; upper floret bisexual; first lemma 2-3 x 1 mm, ovate-lanceolate; palea absent; second lemma 1-2 mm long, awn 1.5-2 cm long; palea absent; stamens 3; ovary oblong; stigmas 1-2 mm long, pink; grain oblong. Pedicelled spikelet 3-4 mm long; lower glume 3-4 x 1 mm, elliptic; upper glume equalling lower, lanceolate; lower floret similar to that of sessile spikelets; upper floret male or empty.
 
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Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :