Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG086 : Aristida funiculata trin

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 555

Synonym : Aristida foenicularis Edgew.; Aristida funicularis Trin. ex Steud. [Invalid]; Aristida herbacea Steud. ex T.Durand & Schinz [Invalid]; Aristida kotschyi Hochst. ex Steud. [Invalid]; Aristida macranthera Hochst. ex Boiss. [Invalid]; Aristida macrathera A.Rich.; Aristida mallica Edgew.; Aristida paradoxa J.A.Schmidt; Aristida royleana Trin. & Rupr.; Aristida stipacea Ehrenb. & Hemprich ex Trin. & Rupr. [Invalid]; Aristida stipacea Ehrenb. & Hemprich ex Boiss.; Arthratherum kotschyi Hochst. ex Trin. [Invalid]; Arthratherum royleanum (Trin. & Rupr.) Edgew. ex Aitch.; Chaetaria murina Nees ex Trin. & Rupr. [Invalid]; Chaetaria royleana Nees ex Steud.;

Plant Common Name : Kusli, K-Charbi Zara

Plant Family : Poaceae

Description : Tufted annual with wiry culms 15-30 cm high. Leaf-blades flat or folded. 4-10 cm long and up to 2 mm wide. Panicle linear, up to 10 cm long, few-flowered. Spikelets green, tinged with brown; glumes linear, membranous, the lower (11-) 13-22 mm long, the upper (10)12-20 mm long, both finely attenuate; lemma, cylindrical, about 4 mm long, scabrid above, articulated at the apex; callus about 2 mm long, conical, pungent; column (0.8-)2-4.5 cm long, the base as wide as the summit of the lemma, straight for a short distance, thereafter strongly twisted; awn-branches subequal, 2.5-4.5 cm long. Fl. & Fr. Per.: June -September.

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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=250071702 -

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
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Order : Poales
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Aristida
Species : Aristida funiculata trin

Aristida funiculata trin