Digitaria abludens (Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp
MG025 : Digitaria abludens (Roem. & Schult.) Veldk.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 586 |
| Synonym | : | Digitaria granularis (Trin. ex Spreng.) Henr.
Digitaria pedicellaris (Trin. ex Hook.f.) Prain
Milium sanguinale Roxb.
Panicum abludens Roem. & Schult.
Panicum paradoxum Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
Panicum pedicellare Trin. ex Hook.f.
Panicum pedicellare* (Trin. ex Hook. f.) Hack.
Panicum pedicellatum Nees ex Duthie
Paspalum granulare Trin. ex Spreng. |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Annual; culms 15-90 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 5-15(-25) cm long, 2-5 mm wide. Inflorescence composed of 3-5(-8) simple or branched racemes arranged along a short common axis 14(-6.5) cm long; racemes 2.5-11.5 cm long, the spikelets ternate on a triquetrous, wingless rhachis (sometimes one spikelet arrested, occasionally the longest pedicel branched and bearing 2(3) spikelets); pedicels terete, smooth, with discoid or cupuliform tip, unequal in length and standing out from the rhachis at maturity. Spikelets elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblong-obovate, 1.3-1.75mm long; lower glume 0; upper glume narrower than the spikelet and half to three-quarters (rarely more) as long, 3(-5)-nerved, with minutely clavate hairs between the nerves; lower lemma a little shorter than the spikelet, 5-7-nerved, pubescent between the nerves with minutely clavate hairs; fruit ellipsoid, apiculate, the tip exceeding the lower lemma, chestnut to brownish-black at maturity.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-August. |
| 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=242317988 |
| 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 / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Digitaria |
| Species | : Digitaria abludens (Roem. & Schult.) Veldkamp |