Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf
MG074 : Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 637 |
| Synonym | : | Sorghum arundinaceum (Desv.) Stapf;
Andropogon arundinaceus Willd.;
Andropogon stapfii Hook. f.;
Andropogon verticilliflorus Steud.;
Rhaphis arundinacea Desv.;
Sorghum bicolor var. arundinaceum; (Desv.) DeWet & Huckaby;
Sorghum bicolor var. verticilliforum;(Steud.) DeWet & Huckaby;
Sorghum pugionifolium Snowden;
Sorghum stapfii (Hook. f.) Fischer.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Annual or short-lived perennial without rhizomes; culms 0.3-4 m high often robust, the nodes glabrous or pubescent. Leaf-blades variable, often large, 5-75 cm long, 5-70 mm wide. Panicle linear to broadly spreading, 10-60 cm long; primary branches compound, ultimately bearing racemes of 2-7 spikelet pairs. Sessile spikelet lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-9 mm long, glabrescent to white pubescent, sometimes tomentose or fulvously pubescent, awnless or more often with an awn 5-30 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet linear to lanceolate, male or barren, smaller than the sessile. 2n=20. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Along stream and river 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=242430794 |
| 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 | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Cyperales |
| Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus | : Sorghum Moench - sorghum |
| Species | : Sorghum verticilliflorum (Steud.) Stapf |