MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG069 : Setaria intermedia Roem. & Schult. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 632 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Common on open lands in forest nurseries | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K- Kulko Zara, Kutela, Chiktu, Chikaniu, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Chaetochloa intermedia (Roem. & Schult.) Stuntz Oplismenus tomentosus (Roxb.) Schult. Panicum hookerianum Balansa Panicum intermedium (Roem. & Schult.) Roth [Illegitimate] Panicum tomentosum Roxb. Setaria tomentosa (Roxb.) Kunth |
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| Description : | Ascending annual, often decumbent below and rooting at the nodes; culms weak, 15-100 cm high. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 5-20 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, flaccid, not or indistinctly scabrid, but often with tubercle-based bristles along the main nerves. Panicle contracted, 3-12 cm long, narrowly lanceolate, branched at least below, the rhachis scaberulous to puberulous; bristles 3-10 mm long, stiff, obscurely scaberulous. Spikelets broadly elliptic, 1.5-2 mm long; lower glume obtuse or acute, one-third to half as long as the spikelet; upper glume half to two-thirds the length of the spikelet; lower floret barren, its palea almost as long as the lemma; upper lemma rugose, pallid to golden. Fl. & Fr. Per.: September. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Boiled and filtered leaf extract is used as eye drops to cure conjunctivitis. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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