Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf
Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf
MG009 : Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 566 |
| Synonym | : | Echinochloa ramosa (L.) Roberty;
Panicum brachylachnum Steud.;
Panicum cognatissimum Steud.;
Panicum nidulans Mez;
Panicum pallidum Peter;
Panicum ramosum L.;
Panicum supervacuum C.B.Clarke;
Urochloa ramosa (L.) T.Q.Nguyen;
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| Plant Common Name | : | Banspate, Browntop Millet, Makra, Murat, Bennakki hullu, Benne akki hullu, Kaadu baragu hullu, Chama pothaval, Banspate, Pala pul, Anda korra, Eduru gaddi |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Browntop Millet is a loosely clustered annual grass, with culms 10-70 cm high. Leaf-blades are broadly linear, 2-25 cm long, 4-14 mm wide. Inflorescence of 3 racemes are borne on an axis 3-10 cm long; racemes are 1-8 cm long, simple or the longest with branchlets at the base, bearing mostly paired loosely contiguous spikelets appressed to the triquetrous rhachis; flower-stalks shorter than the spikelets, 1-2 mm long. Spikelets are elliptic to broadly elliptic, 2.5-3.5 mm long, hairless or velvet-hairy, pointed to cuspidate, with or without a stipe up to 0.5 mm long. Browntop Millet is widely found in the Tropical world, at altitudes of 200-1800 m. Flowering: July-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | IUCN Red List - Least Concern |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb. - signalgrass |
| Species | : Brachiaria ramosa (L.) Stapf |