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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH341 : Sporobolus tenuissimus (Mart. ex Schrank) Kuntze

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 642  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Sporobolus R. Br. - dropseed
Species : Sporobolus tenuissimus
Plant Location in Melghat : On moist grounds in shade  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Gramineae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Agrosticula muralis Raddi.
Agrostis minutiflora (Trin.) Desf. ex Steud.
Aira tenuissima (Mart. ex Schrank) Spreng.
Panicum tenuiflorum Schrank, nom. illeg.
Panicum tenuissimum Mart. ex Schrank.
Sporobolus bibansiensis Vanderyst, pro syn.
Sporobolus effusus Desv.
Sporobolus mangaloricus Hochst. ex Miq.
Sporobolus minutiflorus (Trin.) Link.
Sporobolus muralis (Raddi) Hitchc. & Chase.
Vilfa mangalorica Hochst. ex Miq., pro syn.
Vilfa minutiflora Trin.
Description : Annual, delicate. Culms tufted, weak, 20–100 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf blades linear, flat or folded, 5–20 × 0.2–0.5 cm, glabrous; ligule 0.2–0.3 mm. Panicle narrowly oblong, open, diffuse, 10–40 × 2–6 cm; lowest primary branches single or paired, branches capillary, lower 1/2 bare, secondary branches spreading. Spikelets gray or purplish, 0.8–1 mm, gaping at maturity; lower glume oblong, 0.1–0.4 mm, truncate-erose; upper glume ovate-oblong, 0.3–0.5 mm, subacute; lemma ovate, as long as spikelet, acute to obtuse. Anthers 3, 0.1–0.3 mm. Grain obovate. 0.4–0.7 mm, truncate. 2n = 12.
 
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Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :