Digitaria stricta Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
MG027 : Digitaria stricta Roth ex Roem. & Schult.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 588 |
| Synonym | : | Agrostis pilosa Retz.;
Digitaria concinna Schrad. ex Steud.;
Digitaria denudata Link;
Digitaria puberula Link;
Digitaria royleana (Nees ex Hook. f.) Prain;
Digitaria stricta var. denudata (Link) Henr.;
Digitaria stricta var. glabrescens Bor;
Panicum denudatum (Link) Kunth;
Paspalum concinnum (Schrad. ex Steud.) Steud.;
Paspalum pseudosetaria Steud.;
Paspalum royleanum Nees ex Hook. E;
Setaria stricta (Roth ex Roem. & Schulz.) Kunth; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Tufted annual; sulms up to 40 cm high (110 cm in exceptional specimens), erect. Leaf-blades 4-15(30) cm long, 26 mm wide, the blades and sheaths ± hirsute with tubercle-based hairs. Inflorescence composed of 3-6(17) racemes, these subdigitate or arranged along an axis 1-3(5) cm long; racemes 4-14 cm long, the spikelets ternate (at least in the middle of the raceme) on a narrowly winged rhachis with triquetrous midrib; pedicels narrowly winged, scabrid, slightly dilated at the tip with a crown of stiff hairs exceeding the tip and sometimes up to 1 mm long. Spikelets obtuse, oblong, elliptic or narrowly obovate, 1.1-1.4(-1.6) mm long; lower glume 0; upper glume 0 or very short to about one-third the length of the spikelet and 3-nerved, covered all over with short clavate hairs or rarely glabrous; lower lemma as long as the spikelet, (3-)5-nerved, all interspaces with a sparse to very dense covering of clavate hairs; fruit ellipsoid, apiculate, chestnut brown to black (very rarely pallid) at maturity.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-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 |
| 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 stricta Roth ex Roem. & Schult. |