Eragrostis poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Eragrostis poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
Eragrostis poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
MG037 : Eragrostis poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 598 |
| Synonym | : | Eragrostis minor Host.;
Eragrostis multiflora var. pappiana Chiov.;
Eragrostis pappiana (Chiov.) Chiov.;
Poa eragrostis Linn. |
| Plant Common Name | : | little lovegrass |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Loosely tufted annual; culms 6-60 cm high, ascending. Leaf-blades flat, up to 12 cm long and 5 mm wide, mostly glabrous and usually with a row of warty glands along the margin. Panicle ovate, 4-20 cm long, fairly dense to open, stiffly branched with short pedicels (lateral pedicels 1-3 mm), usually with glands on pedicels and branchlets. Spikelets 6-16(40)-flowered, narrowly oblong or almost linear, 3-9(15) mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, yellowish green, leaden grey or purplish, breaking up from the base; glumes subequal, ovate, boat-shaped, 1-1.7 mm long, 1-3-nerved, often glandular on the keel, acute; lemmas broadly ovate to subrotund, 1.5-2 mm long, chartaceous, often glandular on the keel, the lateral nerves distinct, obtuse; palea ± scabrid on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.3 mm long. Caryopsis broadly oblong, 0.7-0.8 mm long, dark brown.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: May-September. |
| 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=200025347 |
| 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 poaeoides P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. |