MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG027 : Digitaria stricta Roth ex Roem. & Schult. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 588 |
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| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Agrostis pilosa Retz. Digitaria concinna Schrad. ex Steud. Digitaria denudata Link Digitaria puberula Link Digitaria royleana (Nees ex Hook. f.) Prain Digitaria stricta var. denudata (Link) Henr. Digitaria stricta var. glabrescens Bor Panicum denudatum (Link) Kunth Paspalum concinnum (Schrad. ex Steud.) Steud. Paspalum pseudosetaria Steud. Paspalum royleanum Nees ex Hook. E Setaria stricta (Roth ex Roem. & Schulz.) Kunth |
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| Description : | Tufted annual; sulms up to 40 cm high (110 cm in exceptional specimens), erect. Leaf-blades 4-15(30) cm long, 26 mm wide, the blades and sheaths ± hirsute with tubercle-based hairs. Inflorescence composed of 3-6(17) racemes, these subdigitate or arranged along an axis 1-3(5) cm long; racemes 4-14 cm long, the spikelets ternate (at least in the middle of the raceme) on a narrowly winged rhachis with triquetrous midrib; pedicels narrowly winged, scabrid, slightly dilated at the tip with a crown of stiff hairs exceeding the tip and sometimes up to 1 mm long. Spikelets obtuse, oblong, elliptic or narrowly obovate, 1.1-1.4(-1.6) mm long; lower glume 0; upper glume 0 or very short to about one-third the length of the spikelet and 3-nerved, covered all over with short clavate hairs or rarely glabrous; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, (3-)5-nerved, all interspaces with a sparse to very dense covering of clavate hairs; fruit ellipsoid, apiculate, chestnut brown to black (very rarely pallid) at maturity. Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-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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