| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Acrachne eleusinoides Wight & Arn. ex Steud., pro syn.;
Acrachne racemosa var. sumanensis Aggarwal & C.S.Purohit;
Acrachne verticillata (Roxb.) Lindl. ex Chiov.;
Dactyloctenium verticillatum (Roxb.) Munro;
Eleusine racemosa B.Heyne ex Roth;
Eleusine verticillata Roxb.;
Leptochloa racemosa (B.Heyne ex Roth) Kunth;
Leptochloa schimperiana Hochst.;
Leptochloa verticillata (Roxb.) Kunth;
Sclerodactylon micrandrum Keng f. & L.Liu; |
| Plant Common Name | : | |
| Plant Family | : | POACEAE |
| Description | : | Stems up to 75 cm high. Racemes digitate, often with additional whorls below, 1.5–10 cm long. Spikelets 6- to 25-flowered, 5.5–13 mm long; glumes unequal, the lower 1.2–3 mm long, acute and mucronate, the upper 1.5–3 mm long, acuminate and awned, the awn 1/3–2/3 the length of the body; lemmas narrowly ovate in profile, 2–2.8 mm long, the awn 0.3–0.9 mm long. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Commelinids |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Poaceae |
| Genus | : Acrachne |
| Species | : Acrachne racemosa (B.Heyne ex Roth) Ohwi |