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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG145 : Cynodon radiatus Roth

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Cynodon
Species : Cynodon radiatus Roth
Plant Location in Melghat : open places, roadsides  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Poaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Cynodon arcuatus J.Presl
Cynodon dactylon var. arcuatus (J.Presl) J.Kern ex Henty
Cynodon dactylon var. intermedius (Rang. & Tadul.) C.E.C.Fisch.
Cynodon intermedius Rang. & Tadul.
Digitaria radiata (Roth) Spreng.
Description : Perennial, stoloniferous, widely spreading, without rhizomes. Culms slender, 20–50(–80) cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or pilose at mouth; leaf blades broadly linear, 2.5–10(–15) cm, 3–6 mm wide, glaucous, glabrous, apex acute; ligule ca. 3 mm, membranous, ciliolate on upper edge. Racemes digitate, usually 4–8, 5–10 cm, flexuous, slightly drooping; spikelets overlapping by 1/3–1/2 their length. Spikelets 1.8–2.5 mm; rachilla extension ca. 1 mm, without reduced floret at apex; glumes lanceolate, about half as long as floret, 1-veined, keel scabrous, thickened; lower glume ca. 1 mm; upper glume 1–1.4 mm; lemma as long as spikelet, pilose along keel and lateral veins, hairs sometimes clavate, apex subacute; palea glabrous, keels smooth or rarely scaberulous. Anthers 0.5–0.7 mm. Caryopsis trigonous, laterally compressed. Fl. and fr. Jul–Nov. 2n = 36.
 
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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 :