Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br. - gophertail lovegrass
Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br. - gophertail lovegrass
Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br. - gophertail lovegrass
MG032 : Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 593 |
| Synonym | : | Eragrostis ciliaris var. brachystachya Boiss.;
Eragrostis pulchella Parl;
Megastachya ciliaris (Linn.) P. Beauv.;
Poa ciliaris Linn.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Stink Grass, Candy grass, Gray lovegrass |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Tufted annual; culms 5-60 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, up to 12 cm long and 5 mm wide. Panicle spike-like, but often ± lobed or interrupted, 1-20 cm long, woolly, the spikelets densely clustered. Spikelets 6-12-flowered, ovate, 2-4.5 mm long, fluffy, often purplish, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes lanceolate, subequal, 0.7-1.2 mm long, acute; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 0.9-1.5 mm long, the keels (at least in the upper lemmas) bearing a few short stiff hairs, otherwise smooth, broadly obtuse, more or less obscurely mucronate; paleakeels tuberculate-ciliate, the hairs 0.6-0.7 mm long, exceeding the width of the adjacent floret; anthers 2, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: through-out most of the year. |
| 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=242426484 |
| 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 | : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass |
| Species | : Eragrostis ciliaris (L.) R. Br. - gophertail lovegrass |