Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach
Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach
MG051 : Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 613 |
| Synonym | : | Gracilea royleana (Nees ex Steud.) Hook.f.;
Melanocenchris royleana Nees ex Steud.;
Amphipogon humilis Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Pommereulla royleana Steud. [Invalid]; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Annual; culms fasciculate, rarely solitary, geniculately ascending, 6-25 cm high. Leaf-blades 1.5-6 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, scaberulous above and on the margins, and with sparse whitish tubercle-based hairs at the base; sheaths with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Heads 5-10(-12) on a rhachis 24 cm long. Glumes, including the awns, up to 8 mm long, rarely longer, usually with white or occasion-ally purple hairs, the lower a little longer than the upper; lowest lemma 3-lobed, the lobes aristate, the central longer and narrower at the base than the laterals, 4-4.5 (-5.5) mm long; palea equalling the lemma or slightly shorter than it.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: August-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 |
| 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 | : Melanocenchris |
| Species | : Melanocenchris jacquemontii Jaub. & Spach |