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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG076 : Sporobolus coromandelianus auct. non (Retz.) Kunth

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 639  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Sporobolus R. Br. - dropseed
Species : Sporobolus coromandelianus auct. non (Retz.) Kunth
Plant Location in Melghat : On open moist lands and in fields  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Agrostis coromandeliana Retz.
Agrostis rura Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
Sporobolus commutatus (Trin.) Kunth
Sporobolus javensis Ohwi
Sporobolus parvulus Stent
Sporobolus violascens Mez
Vilfa commutata Trin.
Vilfa coromandeliana (Retz.) P.Beauv.
Vilfa discospora Nees ex Trin.
Vilfa roxburghiana Nees ex Steud.
Vilfa roxburghiana Nees ex Wight
Vilfa roxburghii Trin.
Description : Tufted annual; culms 7-20 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 2-10 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, the margin scabrid or with a few long stiff hairs near the base. Panicle ovate, 2-8 cm long; primary branches in whorls, spreading horizontally soon after emergence from the uppermost leaf-sheath. Spikelets 1-1.4 mm long, glabrous or scaberulous, greyish green; lower glume a minute oblong scale, 0.1-0.5 mm long; upper glume oblong-elliptic, as long as the spikelet; lemma similar, but a little shorter; anthers 3,0.2-03 mm long. Grain obovoid, 0.7-0.8 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: May-September.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :