Paspalidium flavidum (Retz.) A.Camus
Paspalidium flavidum (Retz.) A.Camus
MG058 : Paspalidium flavidum (Retz.) A.Camus
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 621 |
| Synonym | : | Panicum brizoides Jacq.;
Panicum flavidum Retz.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Yellow Watercrown Gras |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Tufted perennial; culms 10-120 cm high, erect or ascending from a prostrate base. Leaf-blades 8-30 cm long, 4-13 mm wide, flat or folded, blunt at the tip and sometimes hooded. Inflorescence 8-30 cm long; racemes 1-2.5(3) cm long, distant by 2-4 times their own length, their rhachis very narrowly winged from a triquetrous midrib, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, glabrous or minutely ciliate. Spikelets ovate, gibbously globose, 2-3 mm long; lower glume truncate or ± orbicular, a third to half as long as the spikelet; upper glume half to three-quarters as long as the spikelet; lower floret with a palea, its lemma as long as the spikelet the nerves not raised; upper lemma granulose. Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On moist hill slopes along stream banks |
| 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=242336147 |
| 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 | : Paspalidium |
| Species | : Paspalidium flavidum (Retz.) A.Camus |