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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG074 : Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 637  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Sorghum Moench - sorghum
Species : Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf
Plant Location in Melghat : Along stream and river banks  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name :
 
Synonym : Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf
Andropogon arundinaceus Willd.
Andropogon stapfii Hook. f.
Andropogon verticilliflorus Steud.
Rhaphis arundinacea Desv.
Sorghum bicolor var. arundinaceum
(Desv.) DeWet & Huckaby
Sorghum bicolor var. verticilliforum
(Steud.) DeWet & Huckaby
Sorghum pugionifolium Snowden
Sorghum stapfii (Hook. f.) Fischer.
Description : Annual or short-lived perennial without rhizomes; culms 0.3-4 m high often robust, the nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaf-blades variable, often large, 5-75 cm long, 5-70 mm wide. Panicle linear to broadly spreading, 10-60 cm long; primary branches compound, ultimately bearing racemes of 2-7 spikelet pairs. Sessile spikelet lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-9 mm long, glabrescent to white pubescent, sometimes tomentose or fulvously pubescent, awnless or more often with an awn 5-30 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet linear to lanceolate, male or barren, smaller than the sessile. 2n=20.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :