Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panzer - viper grass
Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panzer - viper grass
MG028 : Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panzer
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 589 |
| Synonym | : | Cynosurus coromandelianus Rottler ex Hook.f. [Invalid];
Cynosurus paniculatus Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid];
Cynosurus retroflexus Vahl;
Dactylis madraspatensis Roxb. ex Hook.f. [Invalid];
Dactylis paspaloides Willd. [Illegitimate];
Dinebra aegyptiaca Delile [Illegitimate];
Dinebra aegyptiaca Kunth;
Dinebra arabica Jacq.;
Dinebra brevifolia Steud.;
Dinebra paspaloides P.Beauv. [Illegitimate];
Dinebra retroflexa var. brevifolia (Steud.) T.Durand & Schinz;
Eleusine calycina Roxb.;
Leptochloa arabica (Jacq.) Steud.; Leptochloa arabica (Jacq.) Kunth; Leptochloa calycina (Roxb.) Kunth; Leptochloa coromandelina Steud.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Lona, K-Kilam Musri |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Loosely tufted annual; culms up to 112 cm high, slender, usually straggling and ascending from a decumbent base, often rooting at the lower nodes. Leaves glandular especially on the sheaths; leaf-blades 4.5-28 cm long, 4-8 mm wide, finely pointed. Inflorescence 8-34 cm long, linear or elliptic-oblong to pyramidal; spikes 0.6-5(7) cm long, stiff, ascending at first, reflexing and deciduous at maturity. Spikelets 1-3-flowered, narrowly wedge-shaped, 5.7-9 mm long, closely over-lapping on the flattened, narrowly green-winged rhachis; glumes narrowly elliptic with caudate curving tips, 6.1-8.2 mm long, coriaceous, asymmetric, usually over-lapping on the abaxial side and obscuring the florets, glandular along the keel; lemmas narrowly ovate, 2.1-2.9 mm long, appressed pilose along the lateral nerves and on the lower half of the back around the central nerve, acute to emarginate, mucronulate; palea appressed pilose on the flaps alongside the keels.
Fl. & Fr. Per. May-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Neurological disorders |
| 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 | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Dinebra Jacq. - viper grass |
| Species | : Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panzer - viper grass |