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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG094 : Chloris barbata Sw.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Chloris Sw. - windmill grass
Species : Chloris barbata
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Andropogon barbatus Linn.
Chloris inflata Link.
Chloris refuscens Steud.
Description : Perennial; culms up to 1 m high, loosely tufted, stoloniferous, glabrous below the inflorescence. Leaf-blades flat, rarely involute, up to 40 cm long, 2-3 mm wide, tapering towards the apex. Inflorescence of 5-12(22) digitate, loose to spreading, purplish, feathery spikes 4-8 cm long. Spikelets 3-flowered, 3-awned; lower glume 1.2-1.5 mm long; upper glume 1.7-25 mm long; lowest lemma narrowly ovate-elliptic in side-view, 2-2.5 mm long, pallid, sparsely to densely ciliate on the margins and keel, the awn 4.5-7 mm long; callus rounded, ciliate; 2nd lemma a glabrous clavate scale 1-1.5 mm long, projecting from the side of the lowest lemma, different in shape, its awn 2.5-7 mm long; 3rd lemma also reduced to a glabrous clavate scale 1 mm long, its awn 3-5 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: April-May.
 
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Reference : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 PMID :