MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG022 : Dichanthium annulatum (Forssk.) Stapf |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 583 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Fields and along road sides | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Marvel, marvel grass, Diaz bluestem, Kleberg bluestem, Hindi grass, ringed dichanthium, sheda grass, medio bluestem, jargu grass, Delhi grass, vuda bluegrass, two-flowered golden-beard, Santa Barbara grass, karad, bansi, daroya, gawat, janewa, jinjva, loari, marvalyan hullu, palvan, sam payen, zinjoo, and zinsma | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Andropogon annulatus Andropogon papillosus Dichanthium nodosum Dichanthium papillosum |
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| Description : | Perennial; culms 25-100 cm high, geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 3-30 cm long, 2-7 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of (1-) 2-15 subdigitate shortly peduncled racemes, the peduncles glabrous; racemes 3-7 cm long, the spikelets subimbricate with 0-6 smaller homogamous pairs at the base; internodes and pedicels solid. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong, 2-6 mm long; lower glume firmly cartilaginous, slightly concave, pubescent to villous below the middle with long bulbous-based hairs on the margins above, obtuse to subacute; awn 8-25 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-November. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Anti-cancer (Preethi and Padma, 2016) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Salcolin A Salcolin B Tricin Isoorientin 4-ketopinoresinol Stigmasterol P-coumaric acid |
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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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