Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG081 : Tripogon capillatus Jaub. & Spach

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 646

Synonym : -

Plant Common Name : -

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Annuals, culms slender, to 30 cm high, loosely tufted or solitary; nodes glabrous. Leaves filiform, to 10 x 0.1 cm, glabrous, sheath rounded; ligule membranous. Racemes to 20 cm long, slender. Spikelets linear-lanceolate, 3-4-flowered, lower glume 3 x 1.5 mm, 3-lobed at apex, awned; awn to 25 mm long, capillary; paleas elliptic, 2-keeled; stamens 3.

Plant Location in Melghat : On moist rocky substrata, exposed on plateaux andin stream beds

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Plant's Current Status : Not Common

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 : Tripogon
Species : Tripogon capillatus Jaub. & Spach

Tripogon capillatus Jaub. & Spach