Plant Category |
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Grasses
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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. |
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584
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Synonym |
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Andropogon aristatus;
Andropogon caricosus subsp. mollicomus;
Andropogon caricosus var. mollicomus;
Andropogon incurvatus;
Andropogon koenigii;
Andropogon mollicomus;
Andropogon pubescens;
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Plant Common Name |
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Mothi Marvel, Angleton Blue Stem, angleton grass; alabang X; angleton blue-stem, yellow bluestem; wildergrass; hierba
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Plant Family |
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Poaceae / Gramineae
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Description |
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Tufted perennial with slender stems and varying degrees of stolon development. Young plants prostrate to semi-erect with foliage to 80 cm, becoming erect at maturity, culms to 1-1.8 m at maturity; nodes glabrous or short woolly; culms with dense, short hairs for 1.5-2.5 cm immediately below the inflorescence. Leaf blades 3-25 cm long, 2-8 mm wide. Inflorescence a sub-digitate panicle, mostly comprising 2-5 racemes, sometimes only one raceme at the end of the season or under unfavourable conditions; stalks of the racemes hairy, awns on each spikelet pair from 16-30 mm long. 500,000-1 million seed units (sessile spikelet + pedicellate spikelet )/kg.
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Plant Location in Melghat |
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Medicinal Use / Activity |
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Plant's Phytochemicals |
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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.tropicalforages.info/key/forages/Media/Html/entities/dichanthium_aristatum.htm
- http://en.hortipedia.com/wiki/Dichanthium_aristatum
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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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