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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG149 : Elytrophorus spicatus (Willd.) A.Camus

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Elytrophorus
Species : Elytrophorus spicatus (Willd.) A.Camus
Plant Location in Melghat : Paddy fields, ditches and wastelands  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Poaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Dactylis spicata Wild., Jangli-rala
 
Synonym : Dactylis spicata Willd.
Echinalysium articulatum (P.Beauv.) Kunth
Echinalysium strictum Trin., nom. superfl.
Elytrophorus articulatus P.Beauv.
Phleum glomeruliflorum Steud.
Sesleria spicata (Willd.) Spreng.
Description : Annuals. Culms creeping, stoloniferous, 2-25 cm high, erect, or geniculate; nodes glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 0.5-20 x 0.1-0.5 cm, rounded at base. Sheaths slightly keeled. Ligules ovate, membranous. Spikes narrow, cylindric, 0.5-15 cm long. Spikelets ovate or ovate-oblong, 4-6-flowered. Lower glume elliptic-lanceolate, 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm, acuminate, keeled, 1-nerved, chartaceous, margins ciliate. Upper glume elliptic-lanceolate, 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm long, acuminate, chartaceous, keeled, 1-nerved; keels ciliate. Lemmas ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm, caudate-acuminate, chartaceous, 3-nerved. Paleas obovate, 1.5-2.5 x 1-1.5 mm, 3-6-lobed at apex, delicate, hyaline. Stamens 3; anthers 0.25-0.5 mm long. Grains elliptic or ellipsoid.
 
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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 :