Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. - pond lovegrass
Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. - pond lovegrass
Eragrostis japonica (Thunb.) Trin. - pond lovegrass
Plant Category | : | Grasses |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 595 |
Synonym | : | Diandrochloa diarrhena (Schult.) Henry;
Diandrochloa diplachnoides (Steud.) Henry;
Diandrochloa japonica (Thunb.) Henry;
Eragrostis diarrhena (Schult.) Steud.;
Eragrostis diplachnoides Steud.;
Eragrostis interrupta (Lam.) Doell.;
Eragrostis interrupta var. diarrhena (Schult.) Stapf;
Eragrostis interrupta var. diplachnoides (Steud.) Stapf;
Eragrostis interrupta var. koenigii (Kunth) Stapf;
Eragrostis interrupta var. tenuissima (Schrad.) Stapf;
Eragrostis koenigii (Kunth) Steud.;
Eragrostis tenellula (Kunth) Steud.;
Eragrostis tenuissima Schrad. ex Nees;
Poa diandra Roxb.;
Poa diarrhena Schult.;
Poa interrupta Lam.;
Poa interrupta* Koen. ex Roxb.;
Poa japonica Thunb.;
Poa koenigii Kunth;
Poa tenella* R. Br.;
Poa tenellula Kunth;
Roshevitzia diplachnoides (Steud.) Tzvelev;
Roshevitzia japonica (Thunb.) Tzvelev; |
Plant Common Name | : | K- Chinzari Zara |
Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
Description | : | Tufted annual or short-lived perennial; culms 10-150 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, up to 30 cm long and 5 mm wide; ligule membranous, 0.3-0.6 mm long, truncate, fimbriate. Panicle linear, 4-50 cm long; branches ascending close to the main axis or spreading and the panicle lanceolate to narrowly ovate or branches contracted in dense remote pseudo-whorls, typically 3-14 cm long, bare towards the base, the spikelets shortly pedicelled and appressed to the secondary branchlets or longer pedicelled and spreading. Spikelets 4-14-flowered, ovate-oblong, 1.3-3 mm long, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes narrowly ovate to broadly oblong-elliptic, subequal, 0.4-0.7 mm long, acute to obtuse; lemmas broadly ovate, 0.7-1 mm long, obtuse; anthers 2, 0.2 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm long.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-October or December. |
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=200025344 |
Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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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 japonica (Thunb.) Trin. - pond lovegrass |