Aristida depressa Retz.
MG004 : Aristida depressa Retz.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 554 |
| Synonym | : | Aristida setacea Retz.;
Aristida adscendens;
Aristida quinqueseta Steud.;
Chaetaria setacea (Retz.) P.Beauv.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Bhurbhuri, Thodappam pullu |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae |
| Description | : | Annual or occasionally perennial with an oblique rhizome, glabrous; culms tufted, geniculately ascending, slender, from a few inches to 2 ft. long, usually branched from one or several of the lower nodes, smooth, upper internodes long exserted; sheaths tight, rather firm, smooth; ligule a line of short hairs; blades very narrow, linear, tapering to a very fine point, 1–9 in. long, up to 1 lin. broad, convolute, rarely flat, smooth below, scabrid above and on the margins; panicle linear, spike-like, usually interrupted or oblong and more or less lax, rigid or flaccid; branches single or 2-nate, unequal, branched from the base or simple to the middle, erect or nodding or flexuous, filiform, scabrid, lateral pedicels short; spikelets 3–5 lin. long, often purplish; glumes linear to linear-lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, 1-nerved, the lower 2–3 1/2 lin., the upper 3–4 1/2 lin. long, sometimes mucronate; valve linear, laterally compressed, as long as the upper glume or slightly longer, rarely shorter, scabrid along the keel and the outer nerve, otherwise smooth or scabrid, particularly below the straight tip; callus 1/4 lin. long; awns 6–9 lin. long, rarely shorter (down to 4 lin.) or longer (up to 1 in.), diverging, continuous with the valve, the lateral somewhat shorter; pale obtuse, less than 1/2 lin. long; lodicules similar to the pale, 3–5-nerved, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long; anthers 1/2 lin. long; grain almost as long as the valve. null |
| 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 | : | 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 |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Poaceae |
| Genus | : Aristida |
| Species | : Aristida depressa Retz. |