| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 584 |
| Synonym | : | Andropogon aristatus;
Andropogon caricosus subsp. mollicomus;
Andropogon caricosus var. mollicomus;
Andropogon incurvatus;
Andropogon koenigii;
Andropogon mollicomus;
Andropogon pubescens; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Mothi Marvel, Angleton Blue Stem, angleton grass; alabang X; angleton blue-stem, yellow bluestem; wildergrass; hierba |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Tufted perennial with slender stems and varying degrees of stolon development. Young plants prostrate to semi-erect with foliage to 80 cm, becoming erect at maturity, culms to 1-1.8 m at maturity; nodes glabrous or short woolly; culms with dense, short hairs for 1.5-2.5 cm immediately below the inflorescence. Leaf blades 3-25 cm long, 2-8 mm wide. Inflorescence a sub-digitate panicle, mostly comprising 2-5 racemes, sometimes only one raceme at the end of the season or under unfavourable conditions; stalks of the racemes hairy, awns on each spikelet pair from 16-30 mm long. 500,000-1 million seed units (sessile spikelet + pedicellate spikelet )/kg. |
| 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.tropicalforages.info/key/forages/Media/Html/entities/dichanthium_aristatum.htm
- http://en.hortipedia.com/wiki/Dichanthium_aristatum |
| 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 | : Dichanthium Willem. - bluestem |
| Species | : Dichanthium aristatum (Poir.) C.E. Hubbard - Angleton bluestem |
