Chrysopogon serrulatus Trin.
MG016 : Chrysopogon serrulatus Trin.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 576 |
| Synonym | : | Andropogon ciliolatus Nees ex Steud.;
Andropogon coeruleus Nees ex Steud.;
Andropogon monticola var. trinii (Steud.) Hook. f.;
Andropogon trinii Steud.;
Chrysopogon ciliolatus (Nees ex Steud.) Boiss.;
Chrysopogon fulvus var. serrulatus (Trin.) R. R. Stewart;
Chrysopogon wightianus var. leucanthus Thw.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | K-Khedi Zara |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Perennial; culms 30-100 cm high, erect, robust. Leaf-blades mostly cauline, up to 30 cm long and 5 mm wide, but sometimes basal and much shorter, bluntly acute to acuminate, glabrous or sometimes with a few tubercle-based hairs. Panicle ovate, 3-12 cm long, with delicate capillary branches fulvously bearded at the tip. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong; lower glume 4-7 mm long, laterally compressed to a rounded keel, hispidulous at the tip; upper glume glabrous or with a few white hairs on the keel, bearing an awn 6-10 mm long; upper lemma minutely bidentate, with a glabrous or pubescent awn 2-3(-3.5) cm long. Pedicelled spikelets (3-) 4.5-8 mm long, lower glume bearing an awn 3.5-6.5 mm long; pedicels fulvously villous, a quarter to a third the length of the sessile spikelet.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: (June-) August-September. |
| 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.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242421332 |
| 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 serrulatus Trin. |