Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG048 : Iseilema anthephoroides

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 610

Synonym : -

Plant Common Name : Musel

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Culms basally decumbent; nodes glabrous. Leaf-sheaths 1-2.5 cm; ligule to 0.5 mm; blades lanceolate, 1-4.5 x 0.1-0.2 cm, flat. Panicles to 4 cm; spatheoles to 8 mm. Homogamous spikelet lanceolate, to 4 mm. Sessile spikelet: lanceolate, to 3.5 mm. Lower glume lanceolate, to 3 mm, beaked, 5-nerved, puberulous at beak, scabrid; upper glume to 3 mm, 3-nerved, shortly aristate; lower lemma to 2 mm; upper lemma narrow, to 1.5 mm, awn to 1 cm. Caryopsis ellipsoid, to 2 mm. Pedicelled spikelet similar to the homogamous spikelet. Flowering and fruiting: July Grasslands

Plant Location in Melghat : -

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Plant's Current Status : Peninsular India (Endemic)

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/mz/po/poaceae/iseilema/iseilemaanthephoroides

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 :
Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Iseilema
Species : Iseilema anthephoroides Hack.

Iseilema anthephoroides Hack.
Iseilema anthephoroides Hack.
Iseilema anthephoroides Hack.