Plant Category |
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Grasses
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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. |
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583
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Synonym |
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Andropogon annulatus;
Andropogon papillosus;
Dichanthium nodosum;
Dichanthium papillosum;
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Plant Common Name |
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Marvel, marvel grass, Diaz bluestem, Kleberg bluestem, Hindi grass, ringed dichanthium, sheda grass, medio bluestem, jargu grass, Delhi grass, vuda bluegrass, two-flowered golden-beard, Santa Barbara grass, karad, bansi, daroya, gawat, janewa, jinjva, loari, marvalyan hullu, palvan, sam payen, zinjoo, and zinsma
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Plant Family |
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Poaceae / Gramineae
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Description |
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Perennial; culms 25-100 cm high, geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 3-30 cm long, 2-7 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of (1-) 2-15 subdigitate shortly peduncled racemes, the peduncles glabrous; racemes 3-7 cm long, the spikelets subimbricate with 0-6 smaller homogamous pairs at the base; internodes and pedicels solid. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong, 2-6 mm long; lower glume firmly cartilaginous, slightly concave, pubescent to villous below the middle with long bulbous-based hairs on the margins above, obtuse to subacute; awn 8-25 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: March-November.
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Plant Location in Melghat |
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Fields and along road sides
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Medicinal Use / Activity |
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Anti-cancer (Preethi and Padma, 2016)
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Plant's Phytochemicals |
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COMPOUNDS: Salcolin A; Salcolin B; Tricin; Isoorientin; 4-ketopinoresinol; Stigmasterol; P-coumaric acid;
ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):
Stigmasterol;
Tricin;
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Plant's Current Status |
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Plant's Cross Database Reference |
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259142
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Reference |
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Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200025242
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Reference |
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~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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