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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG039 : Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 600  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass
Species : Eragrostis tenella (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : feather lovegrass
 
Synonym : Eragrostis amabilis Wight & Arn. ex Nees
Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link
Eragrostis tenella var. plumosa (Retz.) Stapf
Poa amabilis Linn.
Poa plumosa Retz.
Poa tenella Linn.
Description : Delicate tufted annual; culms 6-50 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades flat, up to 9 cm long and 4 mm wide. Panicle elliptic or pyramidal (but in var. insularis C.E. Hubbard in Kew Bull. 1939: 654. 1939, which has not yet been found in Pakistan, the panicle is linear and slender), 2-14 cm long, open, hairy in the axils or not, the branches spreading and bearing oblong yellowish glands but not sticky. Spikelets 4-8-flowered, oblong-ovate, 1.5-2.5 mm long, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes ovate to narrowly ovate, subequal, 0.5-1 mm long, acute; lemmas ovate-oblong, 0.7-1 mm long, smooth or scaberulous, broadly obtuse; palea-keels ciliate with hairs 0.1-0.3 mm long, normally shorter than the width of the adjacent floret; anthers 3, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.5 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-September.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Menstrual disorder
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :