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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG131 : Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.) Hook.f.

Plant Category : Grasses
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Andropogon heteroclitus Nees.; Anthistiria heteroclita Roxb.; Hypogynium heteroclitum (Roxb.) Roberty.; Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.; Pseudanthistiria intermedia Birari & D'Cruz.; Sorghum heteroclitum (Roxb.) Kuntze;
Plant Common Name : Fully gavat
Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae
Description : Culms slender, geniculate at base, 30–50 cm tall. Leaf sheaths glabrous or hispid near margins; leaf blades linear, 8–15 Χ 0.3–0.5 cm, veins distinct, hispid with tuberculate-based hairs on both surfaces, base subrounded, apex acuminate. Compound panicle 10–30 cm; spatheoles lanceolate, 7–12 mm, setose near margins, the hairs arising from conspicuous, sometimes dark-colored tubercles, apex finely acuminate. Racemes with 1–2 spikelet pairs and a terminal triad. Sessile spikelet linear-oblong, 3–4.5 mm; lower glume firmly membranous, shallowly convex, scaberulous or puberulous toward apex varying to appressed-pubescent throughout; upper lemma longerthan glumes; awn 2–3 cm, column pubescent. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, 4.5–5.5 mm, lower glume loosely setose with tuberculate-based hairs near apex. Fl. and fr. Sep–Dec.
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Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142
Reference : Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D., "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra", Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, ISSN2249: 9598,(2014) Volume IV, Issue II, pp. 155 to 165 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200026080
Reference : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Pseudanthistiria
Species : Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.)

Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.)
Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.)