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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG136 : Setaria italica (L.) Beauv.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Setaria P. Beauv. - bristlegrass
Species : Setaria italica (L)
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : Foxtail Millet
 
Synonym : Chaetochloa italica (L.) Scribn.
Chaetochloa viridis (L.) Scribn.
Chamaeraphis viridis (L.) Millsp.
Panicum italicum L.
Panicum pachystachys Franch. & Sav.
Panicum viride L.
Setaria italica subsp. maxima (Alef.) Dekapr. & Kasparian
Setaria italica var. moharia Alef. ex Hegi
Setaria pachystachys (Franch. & Sav.) Matsum.
Setaria viridis (L.) P. Beauv.
Setaria viridis subsp. pachystachys (Franch. & Sav.) Masam. & Yanagita
Description : Annual. Culms robust, erect, up to 150 cm, nodes glabrous. Leaf sheaths glabrous or pubescent, ciliate; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, 15–45 × 0.6–2 cm, usually glabrous; ligule 1–3 mm. Panicle dense, lobed, 6–40 × 0.5–5 cm, very variable, erect or pendent when mature; spikelets subtended by several bristles 1–5 times spikelet length; axis villous. Spikelets elliptic to ovate or subglobose, 2–3 mm, yellow, brown, orange or purple; lower glume 1/3–1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume about as long as spikelet, 5–7(–9)-veined, obtuse; lower lemma equal to spikelet, 5–7-veined; lower palea absent or narrow, up to 1/2 as long as lemma; upper floret yellow or orange-yellow, oblong or ovate-oblong, cartilaginous, deciduous at maturity, finely rugose to smooth and shiny. Fl. and fr. summer to autumn. 2n = 18.
 
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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 :