MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG079 : Themeda triandra Forssk. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 643 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In forest undergrowth as an associate of different grasses, on bunds of fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Gondel, Kangaroo Grass, red grass, red oat, red oat grass, rooigras • Kannada: bettanchi hullu, bheemana handhi hullu, gantu kaasi hullu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Anthistiria punctata Anthistiria imberbis Anthistiria japonica |
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| Description : | Kangaroo grass is a tufted perennial up to about 1.5 m tall with individual tussocks up to 0.5 m across. The leaves are up to 50 cm long and 3 mm wide and the leaf blades bear sparse hairs. The ligule (Ligule - a membrane or hairs found on the inner (adaxial) surface of the leaf-blade/sheath junction) is a rim of hairs and the leaves are folded in the bud. The seed head is relatively large, often reddish in colour with a drooping appearance. The spikelets (Spikelet - consists of one or more florets and is the basic unit of the inflorescence in grasses) are clustered with several sterile spikelets surrounding a single fertile spikelet that bears a large, black, geniculate and twisted awn (Awn - an elongated bristle-like appendage attached to the apex, back or base of the glume, lemma or palea). Older leaves tend to have a red/brown appearance. In eastern Australia flowering occurs throughout summer from December to late April. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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