MG025 : Digitaria abludens (Roem. & Schult.) Veldk. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
586 |
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| Class |
: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Order |
: Poales |
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: Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus |
: Digitaria |
| Species |
: Digitaria abludens (Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
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| Plant Category : |
Grasses |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
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| Plant Family : |
Gramineae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
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| Synonym : |
Digitaria granularis (Trin. ex Spreng.) Henr.
Digitaria pedicellaris (Trin. ex Hook.f.) Prain
Milium sanguinale Roxb.
Panicum abludens Roem. & Schult.
Panicum paradoxum Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
Panicum pedicellare Trin. ex Hook.f.
Panicum pedicellare* (Trin. ex Hook. f.) Hack.
Panicum pedicellatum Nees ex Duthie
Paspalum granulare Trin. ex Spreng.
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| Description : |
Annual; culms 15-90 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 5-15(-25) cm long, 2-5 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of 3-5(-8) simple or branched racemes arranged along a short common axis 14(-6.5) cm long; racemes 2.5-11.5 cm long, the spikelets ternate on a triquetrous, wingless rhachis (sometimes one spikelet arrested, occasionally the longest pedicel branched and bearing 2(3) spikelets); pedicels terete, smooth, with discoid or cupuliform tip, unequal in length and standing out from the rhachis at maturity. Spikelets elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblong-obovate, 1.3-1.75mm long; lower glume 0; upper glume narrower than the spikelet and half to three-quarters (rarely more) as long, 3(-5)-nerved, with minutely clavate hairs between the nerves; lower lemma a little shorter than the spikelet, 5-7-nerved, pubescent between the nerves with minutely clavate hairs; fruit ellipsoid, apiculate, the tip exceeding the lower lemma, chestnut to brownish-black at maturity.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-August. |
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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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