Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.
Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.
MG063 : Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 626 |
| Synonym | : | Pseudanthistiria heteroclita (Roxb.) Hook.f.;
Andropogon heteroclitus Nees;
Anthistiria heteroclita Roxb.;
Hypogynium heteroclitum (Roxb.) Roberty;
Pseudanthistiria intermedia Birari & D'Cruz;
Sorghum heteroclitum (Roxb.) Kuntze.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | K- Gondoli, |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Annuals or perennials. Culms 30-100 cm high, tufted, erect or geniculate; nodes glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 5-20 x 0.2-0.8 cm, acuminate, rounded at base, midrib prominent, hirsute. Sheaths keeled. Ligules truncate, membranous. Panicles 10-25 cm long, narrow, congested, leafy. Sessile spikelets 1-2 in a raceme, linear-oblong, 2-3 mm long, awned, callus softly hairy; lower glume oblong or elliptic-oblong, 2-3 mm long, subcoriaceous, glabrous; upper glume linear-oblong, 2-3 mm long, acute, chartaceous, 3-nerved, keeled; lower floret wanting; upper floret bisexual; second lemma stipitate 1-2 mm long hyaline base of the awn, 1-nerved, awned, awn 20-25 mm long, slender; stamens 3, anthers c. 1 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets 2-3 in a raceme, elliptic, 3-4 mm long, awnless, softly hairy; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long, hairy; lower glume elliptic, 3-4 x 1 mm, chartaceous, upto 11-nerved, sparsely hairy with tubercled hairs; upper glume elliptic-lanceolate, 3-3.5 x 1 mm, chartaceous, 3-nerved, margins hyaline; upper floret male; stamens 3, anthers 1-1.5 mm long. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | More especially in Chikhaldara, Tarubandha,Dhakna and Semadoh ranges in comparatively open situations |
| 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 | : Pseudanthistiria |
| Species | : Pseudanthistiria hispida Hook.f. |