Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb.
Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb.
MG011 : Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 568 |
| Synonym | : | Urochloa setigera (Retz.) Stapf;
Brachiaria setigera var. albistyla Basappa & Muniy.; Echinochloa setigera (Retz.) P.Beauv.; Oplismenus prostratus Edgew. [Invalid]; Panicum affine Poir.; Panicum procumbens var. setigerum (Retz.) Nees; Panicum prostratum var. setigerum (Retz.) Büse; Panicum setigerum Retz.; Urochloa cordata Keng f. ex S.L.Chen & Y.X.Jin; Urochloa setigera var. albistyla (Basappa & Muniy.) Karthik.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Culms ascending from a prostrate, straggling base, to 50 cm; nodes pubescent to villous. Leaf-blades 5-12 x 0.6-2 cm, glabrous, margins scabrid and basally long ciliate; ligule to 0.1 cm. Racemes 4-7, obliquely erect, to 5 cm, subsessile; rachis to 0.3 cm wide, angular, scabrid. Spikelets lanceolate, to 0.5 cm, glabrous; pedicels to 0.15 cm, usually with a few bristles. Lower glume broadly ovate, to 0.15 cm, 3-5-veined; upper glume ovate-lanceolate, to 0.5 cm, 7-9-veined. Lower lemma 5-veined; palea broadly oblong, to 0.4 cm, acuminate; upper lemma broadly elliptic, to 0.3 cm, mucro to 0.02 cm. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Common wasteland grass, usually in shady places; |
| 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 | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Brachiaria (Trin.) Griseb. - signalgrass |
| Species | : Brachiaria setigera (Retz.) C.E.Hubb. |