| 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. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| 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=250071702
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| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Poales |
| Family | : Poaceae |
| Genus | : Aristida |
| Species | : Aristida funiculata trin |