Panicum trypheron Schult.
MG057 : Panicum trypheron Schult.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 620 |
| Synonym | : | Panicum neesianum Wight & Am. ex Steud.;
Panicum roxburghii Spreng.;
Panicum tenellum* Roxb.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Tufted annual; culms (17-)30-90 cm high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 7-30 cm long, 4-9 mm wide, flat, hispid with tubercle-based hairs, blunt or occasionally sharply acute; sheaths glabrous below, usually hispid above with tubercle-based hairs, especially on the margins. Panicle ovate or oblong, 10-25(-40) cm long. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, 2.8-3.5 mm long, glabrous, widely gaping at anthesis and remaining so to maturity, shortly acuminate; lower glume broadly ovate, two-thirds the length of the spikelet, 5-nerved, cuspidate-acuminate; upper glume 7-9-nerved, often cuspidate; lower lemma 7-nerved, it; palea about two-thirds as long; upper lemma yellowish-white, smooth and shining. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Frequent in river beds and open grasslands |
| 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 | : Panicum |
| Species | : Panicum trypheron Schult. |