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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG047 : Ischaemum rugosum Salisb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 609  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Ischaemum L. - murainagrass
Species : Ischaemum rugosum Salisb. - ribbed murainagrass
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Tudi Zara, Bharda, Wrinkle duck beak, saromacca grass
 
Synonym : Andropogon arnottianus (Nees) Steud.
Andropogon griffithsiae (Nees) Steud.
Andropogon segetum (Trin.) Steud.
Andropogon tong-dong Steud.
Ischaemum rugosum var. segetum (Trin.) Hack.
Ischaemum segetum Trin.
Meoschium arnottianum Nees
Meoschium elegans Nees Arn.
Meoschium griffithii Nees & Am.
Meoschium royleanum Nees ex Steud.
Meoschium rugosum (Salisb.) Nees
Description : Straggling annual; culms 10-100 cm high. Leaf-blades 5-30 cm long, 3-15 mm wide. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, of paired racemes each 3-12 cm long, internodes and pedicels clavate, ciliate. Sessile spikelet oblong-ovate, 4-6 mm long; lower glume coriaceous and transversely ridged below, membranous above, 2-keeled along its length; upper lemma with an awn 15-20 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet resembling the sessile and on a pedicel one-third the length of the internode, or much reduced and on a pedicel equalling the internode. Fl. & Fr. Per.: October-December.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : scarcity
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :