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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG031 : Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 592  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostiella
Species : Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Double-Row Lovegrass
 
Synonym : Triticum bifarium (Vahl) Kuntze
Poa coromandeliana J.Koenig ex Rottler Poa bifaria Vahl
Eragrostis thraulostachys K.Schum. ex Stapf
Eragrostis cretacea Nees
Eragrostis coromandeliana (J.Koenig ex Rottler) Trin.
Eragrostis bifaria (Vahl) Wight
Eragrostiella coromandeliana (K.D.Koenig ex Rottler) Keng f. & L.Liou
Eragrostiella bifaria var. australiana
Catapodium coromandelianum (J.Koenig ex Rottler) Link
Catapodium bifarium (Vahl) Link
Description : Double-Row Lovegrass is a densely clustered perennial grass with culms 30-80 cm high, nodes hairless. Leaves are many, 15-30 x 0.2-0.5 cm, linear, mostly basal, sheath rounded, hairless, ligule a narrow membrane. Flowers are borne in solitary raceme, 20-30 cm long. Spikelets are 20 x 2-3 mm, linear-oblong, arranged in two rows, glumes nearly equal, ovate, pointed, 1-nerved, upper larger; florets 20-40, all bisexual; lemmas 2 x 2 mm, broadly ovate, 3-nerved; palea 2 x 1 mm, obovate, 2-keeled, hyaline; stamens 3, anthers 1 mm long; ovary elliptic, styles 2, free; stigmas plumose.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :