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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG143 : Chrysopogon polyphyllus (Hack. ex Hook.f.) Blatt. & McCann

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Chrysopogon
Species : Chrysopogon polyphyllus (Hack. ex Hook.f.) Blatt. & McCann
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern  
Plant Family : POACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Dhaulu, Sabba
 
Synonym : Andropogon ciliolatus Nees ex Steud.
Andropogon coeruleus Nees ex Steud.
Andropogon monticola var. trinii (Steud.) Hook. f.
Andropogon trinii Steud.
Chrysopogon ciliolatus (Nees ex Steud.) Boiss.
Chrysopogon fulvus var. serrulatus (Trin.) R. R. Stewart
Chrysopogon wightianus var. leucanthus Thw.
Description : Perennial; culms 30-100 cm high, erect, robust. Leaf-blades mostly cauline, up to 30 cm long and 5 mm wide, but sometimes basal and much shorter, bluntly acute to acuminate, glabrous or sometimes with a few tubercle-based hairs. Panicle ovate, 3-12 cm long, with delicate capillary branches fulvously bearded at the tip. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong; lower glume 4-7 mm long, laterally compressed to a rounded keel, hispidulous at the tip; upper glume glabrous or with a few white hairs on the keel, bearing an awn 6-10 mm long; upper lemma minutely bidentate, with a glabrous or pubescent awn 2-3(-3.5) cm long. Pedicelled spikelets (3-) 4.5-8 mm long, lower glume bearing an awn 3.5-6.5 mm long; pedicels fulvously villous, a quarter to a third the length of the sessile spikelet. Fl. & Fr. Per.: (June-) August-September.
 
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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 :