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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG096 : Chloris dolichostachya Lag.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 573  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Chloris Sw. - windmill grass
Species : Chloris dolichostachya
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Enteropogon dolichostachyus (Lag.) Keng
Chloris digitata (Roxb.) Steud.
Chloris incompleta Roth
Chloris medinipurensis D.K.Dey, Pati & D.C.Pal
Chloris panicea Willd.
Chloris radiata B.Heyne ex Roth [Illegitimate]
Chloris roxburghii Edgew.
Chloris tetrameris Trin.
Ctenium digitatum (Roxb.) Spreng.
Cynodon elongatus Trin.
Digitaria elongata (Trin.) Spreng.
Enteropogon dolichostachyus (Lag.) Keng ex Lazarides
Gymnopogon digitatus Nees ex Steud. [Invalid]
Gymnopogon elongatus Nees ex Steud. [Invalid]
Lophacme incompleta (Roth) Chiov.
Melica digitata Roxb.
Description : Perennial; culms up to 1.2 m high, erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades flat, 10-25(40) cm long, 5-10(-15) mm wide, tapering to a fine point. Inflorescence of 4-6(-10) digitate, flexuous, often drooping spikes (7-)15-25 cm long. Spikelets 2-flowered, 2-awned; lower glume linear-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long; upper glume lanceolate, 4.5-6(-6.5) mm long including the short awn-point; lower lemma oblong-lanceolate when flattened, dorsally compressed, 4.5-6.5 mm long, green, scabrid on the back and margins, with an awn up to 12 mm long; callus rounded, ciliate; upper lemma embraced by the lower lemma, reduced to a minute oblong scale up to 1 mm long, bearded at the base, with an awn 2.5-4.5 mm long. Caryopsis dorsally compressed. Fl. & Fr. Per.: through-out 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 :