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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG140 : Acrachne racemosa (B.Heyne ex Roth) Ohwi

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Acrachne
Species : Acrachne racemosa (B.Heyne ex Roth) Ohwi
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : POACEAE  

 
Plant Common Name :
 
Synonym : Acrachne eleusinoides Wight & Arn. ex Steud., pro syn.
Acrachne racemosa var. sumanensis Aggarwal & C.S.Purohit
Acrachne verticillata (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Chiov.
Dactyloctenium verticillatum (Roxb.) Munro
Eleusine racemosa B.Heyne ex Roth
Eleusine verticillata Roxb.
Leptochloa racemosa (B.Heyne ex Roth) Kunth
Leptochloa schimperiana Hochst.
Leptochloa verticillata (Roxb.) Kunth
Sclerodactylon micrandrum Keng f. & L.Liu


Description : Stems up to 75 cm high. Racemes digitate, often with additional whorls below, 1.5–10 cm long. Spikelets 6- to 25-flowered, 5.5–13 mm long; glumes unequal, the lower 1.2–3 mm long, acute and mucronate, the upper 1.5–3 mm long, acuminate and awned, the awn 1/3–2/3 the length of the body; lemmas narrowly ovate in profile, 2–2.8 mm long, the awn 0.3–0.9 mm long.
 
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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 :