MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG152 : Panicum curviflorum Hornem. |
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| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | POACEAE | |||||||||||||
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| Synonym : | Panicum curvatum var. tenellum T.Durand & Schinz Panicum curviflorum var. suishaense (Hayata) Veldkamp Panicum deccanense Naik & Patunkar Panicum neesianum Wight & Arn. ex Steud. Panicum papuanum Mez Panicum roxburghii Spreng., nom. superfl. Panicum suishaense Hayata Panicum tenellum Roxb., nom. illeg. Panicum trypheron Schult. Panicum trypheron var. suishaense (Hayata) P.S.Hsu |
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| Description : | Loosely tuftedannual, up to 90(-120) cm tall, hairy. Culms geniculate to spreading, terete, ribbed, smooth. Nodes yellowish green to black, glabrous. Sheaths terete, withbulbous based hairs, throatwith tuftsof hairs up to 2(-3) mm long. Ligule a row of hairs or scarious and collar-shaped, up to 0.8 mm long, abaxially puberulous with hairs up to 1.3 mm long, erose. Blades erecto-patent, usually flat, linear, abruptly narrowed into the base, 5.5-19(-30) cm by (3-)5-10(-12) mm, hairy on both sides, the lowerside more densely so, margin scabrous. Panicle erect, lax, 10- 50 cm long; main axis and branches semi-terete to angular, main axis smooth, the branches scaberulous; branches l(-3, sometimes immediately branching above its base), the lowermost longest one (2—)3—11(—16) cm long (the higher ones sometimes longer), naked in the lower 0.1-0.6thpart, with (8-)many spikelets. Pedicels 3—9(—13) mm long, scaberulous, sometimes with a short hair below the spikelet (see note). Spikelets ± paired, fusiform, yawning at maturity, 2.5-3.2 mm long, acuminate. Lower glume ovate with a clasping base, 1.5-2.1 mm long, 0.5-0.7 times as long as the spikelet, keeled or indurated towardthe acuminate apex, 5(-8)- nerved, midrib scaberulous. Upper glume 2.5-3.2 mm long, slightly shorter than to as long as the spikelet, apex ± acuminate, ± keeled, ± falcate, 7(-ll)-nerved, smooth. Lower lemma paleate, sterile, 2.2-3 mm long, 9-nerved. Lower palea lingular, oblong, 1.7-2.3 mm long, 0.6-0.8 times as long as the lemma, scarious. Upper lemmacupuliform, 1.5-2 mm,9-nerved, smooth. Upper palea as the lemma, 1.4-1.9 mm long, more flat. Lodicules obliquely obhastate, c. 0.3 mm long, fleshy, glabrous, indistinctly nerved. Anthers 3, linear, c. 1 by 0.2 mm,red (i.s.). Stigmas subapical, free, reddish-brown (i.s.). Caryopsis ellipsoid, 1-1.5 mm long; embryo about half as long; endosperm white, glassy. | |||||||||||||
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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
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