| 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 |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| 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 |