MH340 : Oropetium villosulum Stapf ex Bor |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
617 |
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| Class |
: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Order |
: Poales |
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: Poaceae |
| Genus |
: Oropetium |
| Species |
: Oropetium villosulum Stapf ex Bor. |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
On Wet ,exposed rocks of Plateaux |
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| Plant Category : |
Herbs |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
UNCOMMON |
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| Plant Family : |
Poaceae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
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| Synonym : |
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| Description : |
Annual; caespitose. Culms erect; 1–5 cm long. Culm-nodes glabrous. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades involute; 1–3 cm long; 0.5 mm wide; stiff. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy on both sides. Leaf-blade apex acute. Inflorescence composed of racemes; deciduous as a whole; embraced at base by subtending leaf. Racemes 1; single; smoothly terete; bilateral; 1.5 cm long. Rhachis tough; subcylindrical and excavated. Spikelet packing adaxial; regular; 2 -rowed. Spikelets sunken; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile. FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets elliptic; dorsally compressed; 2 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus pubescent. GLUMES Glumes two, or one the lower absent or obscure; deciduous; dissimilar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume orbicular; 0–1 mm long; 0–0.5 length of upper glume; hyaline; without keels; 0 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex obtuse. Upper glume elliptic; 2 mm long; 1.3 length of adjacent fertile lemma; coriaceous; with hyaline margins; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins ribbed. Upper glume apex obtuse. FLORETS Fertile lemma elliptic; 1.5 mm long; membranous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma surface pilose; hairy above. Lemma apex truncate. Palea 1 length of lemma; hyaline; 2 -veined. Palea surface pilose. FLOWER Anthers 3; 0.33 mm long. FRUIT Caryopsis with tardily free pericarp. |
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| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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