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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG083 : Urochloa panicoides P. Beauv.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 648  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Urochloa P. Beauv. - signalgrass
Species : Urochloa panicoides P. Beauv. - panic liverseed grass
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  

 
Plant Common Name : K- Chatulatu
 
Synonym : Panicum helopus Trin.
Panicum hirsutum Koen. ex Roxb.
Panicum javanicum Poir.
Panicum panicoides (P. Beauv.) Hitchc.
Panicum rothii Spreng.
Urochloa helopus (Trin.) Stapf
Urochloa marathensis Henr.
Urochloa marathensis var. velutina Henr.
Urochloa panicoides var. marathensis (Henr.) Bor.
Urochloa panicoides var. pubescens (Kunth) Bor
Urochloa panicoides var. velutina (Henr.) Bor
Urochloa pubescens Kunth


Description : Tufted annual; culms 10-100 cm high, often ascending from prostrate rooting base. Leaf-blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2-15 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, subamplexicaul, coarse, glabrous or pubescent, the margins tuberculate-ciliate at least near the base. Inflorescence of 2-7 (-10 or rarely more) racemes on a common axis 1-6 cm long; racemes 1-6 cm long, bearing single or sometimes paired spikelets on a narrowly winged rhachis, the pedicels (sometimes also the rhachis) with white hairs. Spikelets elliptic, (2.5-) 3.5-4.5 (-5) mm long, acute; lower glume ovate, a quarter to almost half as long as the spikelet, very rarely more, 3-5-nerved, obtuse to subacute; upper glume often with crossveins, glabrous or pubescent lower lemma sometimes with a setose fringe; upper lemma rugulose with a mucro 0.3-1 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-September.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :