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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG036 : Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 597  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass
Species : Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv. - Indian lovegrass
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Indian lovegrass, Jersey love-grass, hairy love grass, small tufted lovegrass, soft lovegrass
 
Synonym : Eragrostis tenuiflora Rupr. ex Steud.
Eragrostis verticillata (Cay.) Roem. & Schult.
Poa pilosa Linn.
Poa verticillata Cay.
Description : Loosely tufted annual; culms 8-70 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades flat, 2-20 cm long, 14 mm wide. Panicle elliptic to ovate, 4-25 cm long, open, the lowest branches whorled (except in the smallest panicles) and nearly always with a few long white hairs in the axils. Spikelets 4-14-flowered, linear, 3-7 mm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, purplish-green, the florets ± appressed to the rhachilla, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes hyaline, unequal, the lower a narrowly ovate nerveless scale 0.5-0.7 mm long, the .upper ovate, 1 mm long, with a single indistinct nerve; lemmas broadly ovate, 1-1.6 mm long, obtuse to subacute; palea falling soon after the lemma (usually persistent in temperate regions), the keel scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid with one side straight, 0.6-1 mm long, somewhat laterally compressed. 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 :