Themeda triandra Forssk. - kangaroo grass
Themeda triandra Forssk. - kangaroo grass
Themeda triandra Forssk. - kangaroo grass
MG079 : Themeda triandra Forssk.
| Plant Category | : | Grasses |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 643 |
| Synonym | : | Anthistiria punctata;
Anthistiria imberbis;
Anthistiria japonica; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Gondel, Kangaroo Grass, red grass, red oat, red oat grass, rooigras • Kannada: bettanchi hullu, bheemana handhi hullu, gantu kaasi hullu |
| Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
| Description | : | Kangaroo grass is a tufted perennial up to about 1.5 m tall with individual tussocks up to 0.5 m across. The leaves are up to 50 cm long and 3 mm wide and the leaf blades bear sparse hairs. The ligule (Ligule - a membrane or hairs found on the inner (adaxial) surface of the leaf-blade/sheath junction) is a rim of hairs and the leaves are folded in the bud. The seed head is relatively large, often reddish in colour with a drooping appearance. The spikelets (Spikelet - consists of one or more florets and is the basic unit of the inflorescence in grasses) are clustered with several sterile spikelets surrounding a single fertile spikelet that bears a large, black, geniculate and twisted awn (Awn - an elongated bristle-like appendage attached to the apex, back or base of the glume, lemma or palea). Older leaves tend to have a red/brown appearance. In eastern Australia flowering occurs throughout summer from December to late April. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In forest undergrowth as an associate of different grasses, on bunds of fields |
| 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
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kangaroo%20Grass.html |
| 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 | : Themeda Forssk. - kangaroo grass |
| Species | : Themeda triandra Forssk. - kangaroo grass |