MG138 : Echinochloa frumentacea |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
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| Class |
: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Order |
: Poales |
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: Poaceae |
| Genus |
: Echinochloa |
| Species |
: Echinochloa frumentacea Link |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
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| Plant Category : |
Grasses |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
Least concern |
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| Plant Family : |
POACEAE |
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| Plant Common Name : |
Japanese Millet, Japanese Barnyard Millet, billion dollar grass • Hindi: Banti • Kannada: Kaadu haaraka hullu • Marathi: Jangli sama, Samul • Sanskrit: Syamaka • Tamil: Chamai, Kudiravalli pulllu, Rail pullu |
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| Synonym : |
Panicum crus-galli var. edule
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| Description : |
a robust annual herb with culms 30-150 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades often broad, 5-30 cm long, 3-20 mm wide; ligule absent; sheaths hairless. Flower-clusters are lanceshaped, 6-20 cm long, the racemes several-rowed with crowded spikelets, 1-3 cm long, simple, closely spaced and overlapping. Spikelets are broadly elliptic to rotund, 2.5-3.5 mm long, plump and sometimes gaping, tardily deciduous, mostly yellowish or pallid, velvet-hairy to bristly; lower lemma pointed; upper lemma 2-3 mm long. |
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| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
The plant is useful in the treatment of biliousness and constipation. |
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| Plant's Phytochemicals : |
Isocarlinoside
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| Reference : |
~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID :
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