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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG043 : Heteropogon contortus (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 605  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Heteropogon Pers. - tanglehead
Species : Heteropogon contortus (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. - tanglehead
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Kusal, Black Speargrass, tanglehead grass, tanglehead, bunch speargrass, bunched spear grass, twisted beardgrass
 
Synonym : Andropogon allionii DC.
Andropogon contortus Linn.
Heteropogon allionii (DC) Roem & Schult.
Heteropogon glaber Pers.
Heteropogon hirsutus P. Beauv.
Heteropogon hirtus Pers.

Heteropogon hispidissimus Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Description : Untidily tufted perennial, the basal sheaths laterally compressed; culms 30-100 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, 3-30 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, abruptly narrowed at the tip. Racemes 3-10 cm long, mostly long exserted, solitary or aggregated into a scanty false panicle, the awns forming a twisted spire. Homogamous spikelets 3-17 pairs, resembling the pedicelled spikelets. Sessile spikelet 5.5-10 mm long including a ferociously pungent and rufously bearded callus 2-3 mm long; lower glume elliptic-oblong, brown, hispidulous; awn 5-8 cm long, hirtellous. Pedicelled spikelet 5-15 mm long; lower glume green with yellowish membranous margins; the hairiness varying from glabrous to tuberculate-villous; callus 2-3 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-October or November.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :