MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG026 : Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koeler |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 587 |
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| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Wild Crabgrass, bamboo grass, crabgrass, Henry's crabgrass, large crabgrass, smooth crabgrass, southern crabgrass, summer grass, tropical crab grass, tropical finger grass | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Asprella digitata Lam. Digitaria abortiva Reeder Digitaria adscendens (Kunth) Henrard Digitaria brevifolia Link Digitaria chinensis Hornem. Digitaria chrysoblephara Fig. & De Not. Digitaria fimbriata Link Digitaria inaequale (Link) Spreng. Digitaria inaequalis (Link) Spreng. Digitaria marginata Link Digitaria pes-avis Buse Digitaria sericea (Honda) Ohwi Digitaria tarapacana Phil. Leersia digitata (Lam.) Poir. Milium ciliare (Retz.) Moench Milium ciliatum Moench nom. illeg. Panicum adscendens Kunth Panicum brachyphyllum Steud. Panicum brevifolium (Link) Kunth nom. illeg. Panicum ciliare Retz. Panicum fimbriatum (Link) Kunth Panicum inaequale (Link) E.Fourn. nom. illeg. Panicum linkianum Kunth Panicum marginellum Schrad. nom. illeg. Panicum ornithopus Trin. Panicum pes-avis (Buse) Koord. Panicum villiferum Nees Paspalum ciliare (Retz.) DC. Paspalum inaequale Link Sanguinaria ciliaris (Retz.) Bubani Spartina pubera Hassk. nom. inval. Syntherisma ciliare (Retz.) Schrad. Syntherisma ciliaris (Retz.) Schrad. Syntherisma fimbriata (Link) Nash Syntherisma marginata (Link) Nash Syntherisma sericea Honda |
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| Description : | Annual; culms 20-100 cm high, decumbent at the base and geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 3-25 cm long, 3-10 mm wide. Inflorescence digitate or subdigitate (axis up to 5 cm long in robust specimens), composed of 2-12 racemes; racemes stiff, 6-22 cm long, sometimes adorned with sparse long white hairs, the spikelets binate and overlapping by about two-thirds their length on a winged rhachis with triquetrous midrib; pedicels triquetrous, scabrid, obtuse or slightly expanded at the tip. Spikelets narrowly elliptic, (2-)2.5-3.3 (-3.7) mm long, sharply acute; lower glume distinct, 0.2-0.4 mm long and triangular; upper glume at least half as long as the spikelet, typically two-thirds to three-quarters as long, 3-nerved; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, 7-nerved, the nerves smooth and evenly spaced or with a wide interspace flanking the midrib (sometimes those of the subsessile spikelet even and of the pedicelled spikelet spaced), appressed puberulous, silky pubescent or rarely shortly villous, often encompassed by a ciliate frill, occasionally glabrous, one or both spikelets often beset with stiff glassy bristles; fruit ellipsoid, grey to light brown. Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-October. | |||||||||||||
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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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