MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MG080 : Tragus roxburghii Panigrahi |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 645 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On open moist rocky substrata and poor soils | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Gramineae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Indian Bur Grass, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tragus roxburghii Panigrahi Lappago biflora sensu Roxb. Nazia racemosa auct. non O. Ktze. Tragus biflorus sensu Schult. |
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| Description : | Radiately spreading annual; culms 3-20 cm long, ascending from a prostrate base, rooting from the nodes, often matted. Leaf-blades 0.5-5 cm long, 1-4 mm wide. Inflorescence 1-4 cm long, cylindrical, often loosely so; clusters straight or slightly gaping at the tip, consisting of 2 subequal and subopposite spikelets. Spikelets 2.5-4 mm long; upper glume 5-nerved, the prickles terete in their lower half and hooked at the tip. Fl. & Fr. Per.: most of the year. | |||||||||||||
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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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