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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH387 : Oropetium roxburghianum (Steud.) S.M. Phillips

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Oropetium
Species : Oropetium roxburghianum (Steud.) S.M. Phillips
Plant Location in Melghat : Patkao, Tarubanda  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Poaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Lepturus roxburghianus (Schult.) Steud.
Rottboellia biflora Roxb., nom. illeg.
Rottboellia roxburghiana Schult.
Tripogon roxburghianus (Schult.) Bhide.
Description : Erect Herbs tufted with filiform leaves and solitary spikes. Perennial; caespitose. Butt sheaths persistent and investing base of culm; with fibrous dead sheaths. Culms erect; 10–25 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades filiform; convolute; 1–4 cm long; 0.2–0.5 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of racemes. Racemes 1; single; smoothly terete; 4–10 cm long. Rhachis fracturing into irregular segments; subcylindrical and excavated. Spikelet packing adaxial; regular; 2 -rowed. Spikelets sunken; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile. Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension, or with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 4 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Floret callus pubescent. Glumes deciduous; dissimilar; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Lower glume oblong; 0.75 mm long; 0.2–0.4 length of upper glume; hyaline; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex truncate. Upper glume lanceolate; 2–4 mm long; 1–1.6 length of adjacent fertile lemma; coriaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume apex acute. Fertile lemma oblong; 2–2.5 mm long; hyaline; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma surface pubescent; hairy below. Lemma apex dentate; 2–3 -fid. Palea hyaline; 2 -veined. Rhachilla extension 0.1 length of fertile floret. Apical sterile florets 1 in number; male; oblong; 1.5–2 mm long. FLOWER Anthers 3; 0.5–1 mm long. FRUIT Caryopsis with tardily free pericarp; fusiform; 1 mm long.
 
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Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :