| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 605 |
| Synonym | : | Andropogon allionii DC.;
Andropogon contortus Linn.;
Heteropogon allionii (DC) Roem & Schult.;
Heteropogon glaber Pers.;
Heteropogon hirsutus P. Beauv.;
Heteropogon hirtus Pers.;;
Heteropogon hispidissimus Hochst. ex A. Rich.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kusal, Black Speargrass, tanglehead grass, tanglehead, bunch speargrass, bunched spear grass, twisted beardgrass |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Untidily tufted perennial, the basal sheaths laterally compressed; culms 30-100 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, 3-30 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, abruptly narrowed at the tip. Racemes 3-10 cm long, mostly long exserted, solitary or aggregated into a scanty false panicle, the awns forming a twisted spire. Homogamous spikelets 3-17 pairs, resembling the pedicelled spikelets. Sessile spikelet 5.5-10 mm long including a ferociously pungent and rufously bearded callus 2-3 mm long; lower glume elliptic-oblong, brown, hispidulous; awn 5-8 cm long, hirtellous. Pedicelled spikelet 5-15 mm long; lower glume green with yellowish membranous margins; the hairiness varying from glabrous to tuberculate-villous; callus 2-3 mm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-October or November. |
| 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=200025522 |
| 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 | : Heteropogon Pers. - tanglehead |
| Species | : Heteropogon contortus (L.) P. Beauv. ex Roem. & Schult. - tanglehead |
