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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG023 : Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C.E. Hubbard

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 584  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Dichanthium Willem. - bluestem
Species : Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C.E. Hubbard - Angleton bluestem
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Mothi Marvel, Angleton Blue Stem, angleton grass; alabang X; angleton blue-stem, yellow bluestem; wildergrass; hierba
 
Synonym : Andropogon aristatus
Andropogon caricosus subsp. mollicomus
Andropogon caricosus var. mollicomus
Andropogon incurvatus
Andropogon koenigii
Andropogon mollicomus
Andropogon pubescens
Description : Tufted perennial with slender stems and varying degrees of stolon development. Young plants prostrate to semi-erect with foliage to 80 cm, becoming erect at maturity, culms to 1-1.8 m at maturity; nodes glabrous or short woolly; culms with dense, short hairs for 1.5-2.5 cm immediately below the inflorescence. Leaf blades 3-25 cm long, 2-8 mm wide. Inflorescence a sub-digitate panicle, mostly comprising 2-5 racemes, sometimes only one raceme at the end of the season or under unfavourable conditions; stalks of the racemes hairy, awns on each spikelet pair from 16-30 mm long. 500,000-1 million seed units (sessile spikelet + pedicellate spikelet )/kg.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :