Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG031 : Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 592

Synonym : Triticum bifarium (Vahl) Kuntze; Poa coromandeliana J.Koenig ex Rottler Poa bifaria Vahl; Eragrostis thraulostachys K.Schum. ex Stapf; Eragrostis cretacea Nees; Eragrostis coromandeliana (J.Koenig ex Rottler) Trin.; Eragrostis bifaria (Vahl) Wight; Eragrostiella coromandeliana (K.D.Koenig ex Rottler) Keng f. & L.Liou; Eragrostiella bifaria var. australiana ; Catapodium coromandelianum (J.Koenig ex Rottler) Link; Catapodium bifarium (Vahl) Link;

Plant Common Name : Double-Row Lovegrass

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Double-Row Lovegrass is a densely clustered perennial grass with culms 30-80 cm high, nodes hairless. Leaves are many, 15-30 x 0.2-0.5 cm, linear, mostly basal, sheath rounded, hairless, ligule a narrow membrane. Flowers are borne in solitary raceme, 20-30 cm long. Spikelets are 20 x 2-3 mm, linear-oblong, arranged in two rows, glumes nearly equal, ovate, pointed, 1-nerved, upper larger; florets 20-40, all bisexual; lemmas 2 x 2 mm, broadly ovate, 3-nerved; palea 2 x 1 mm, obovate, 2-keeled, hyaline; stamens 3, anthers 1 mm long; ovary elliptic, styles 2, free; stigmas plumose.

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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
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
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Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eragrostiella
Species : Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor

Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor
Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor
Eragrostiella bifaria (Vahl) Bor