Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv. - Indian lovegrass
Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv. - Indian lovegrass
Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv. - Indian lovegrass
MG036 : Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 597 |
| Synonym | : | Eragrostis tenuiflora Rupr. ex Steud.;
Eragrostis verticillata (Cay.) Roem. & Schult.;
Poa pilosa Linn.;
Poa verticillata Cay.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Indian lovegrass, Jersey love-grass, hairy love grass, small tufted lovegrass, soft lovegrass |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Loosely tufted annual; culms 8-70 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades flat, 2-20 cm long, 14 mm wide. Panicle elliptic to ovate, 4-25 cm long, open, the lowest branches whorled (except in the smallest panicles) and nearly always with a few long white hairs in the axils. Spikelets 4-14-flowered, linear, 3-7 mm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, purplish-green, the florets ± appressed to the rhachilla, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes hyaline, unequal, the lower a narrowly ovate nerveless scale 0.5-0.7 mm long, the .upper ovate, 1 mm long, with a single indistinct nerve; lemmas broadly ovate, 1-1.6 mm long, obtuse to subacute; palea falling soon after the lemma (usually persistent in temperate regions), the keel scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid with one side straight, 0.6-1 mm long, somewhat laterally compressed.
Fl. & Fr. Per. July-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 | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Eragrostis von Wolf - lovegrass |
| Species | : Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. Beauv. - Indian lovegrass |