Chrysopogon fulvus (Spreng.) Chiov. - red false beardgrass
MG015 : Chrysopogon fulvus (Spreng.) Chiov.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 575 |
| Synonym | : | Chrysopogon montanus Trin,;
Andropogon sprengelii Kunth.;
Andropogon montanus;
Andropogon monticola;
Chrysopogon monticola;
Pollinia fulva;
Sorghum monticola; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Gogad, K-Sani- Khidi, Dongari Gavat |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | A perennial grass. Stems densely tufted, 30-120 cm high, usually slender, erect, simple or branched, leafy chiefly at the base, nodes glabrous. Linear, acute, flat, rigid, glaucous, smooth or scaberulous; sheaths, the upper terete, the lower compressed; ligule a very short ciliate membrane. Panicle, long, ovate or oblong, rachis slender, smooth branches, whorled, capillary, spreading at length, erect, racemes reduced to a single sessile female and 2 pedicellate spikelets. Sessile spikelets, bearded on one side with rufous hairs.
Glumes 4; lower involucral long, linear, 2-toothed at the apex, 4-nerved; upper involucral glume ovate-lanceolate, concave, ciliate on the keel with rufous hairs with an awn, 3-nerved, lower floral glume oblong, obtuse, ciliate, upper floral glume narrowly linear, hyaline.
Pedicellate spikelets as long as the sessile, ciliate, flattened; lower involucral glume lanceolate, acute or awned, 7-nerved; upper involucral-glume lanceolate, acuminate; floral glumes smaller, oblong, hyaline, ciliate. Flowering and Fruiting Time : October |
| 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
-http://www.efloraofgandhinagar.in/herb/chrysopogon-fulvus |
| 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 | : Chrysopogon Trin. - false beardgrass |
| Species | : Chrysopogon fulvus (Spreng.) Chiov. - red false beardgrass |